FILE PHOTO: Russian officials and family members of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin attend Yeltsin's funeral ceremony in Moscow LONDON (Reuters) -Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former ...

When Boris Yeltsin's plane landed in Shannon last week on its way back to Moscow, the Irish prime minister was waiting on the tarmac to give him lunch. He waited and waited, but Yeltsin never got off ...

Beginning in 1924, prominent guests of the publisher autographed leather-bound books during their visits to The Times’s headquarters. By David W. Dunlap A newly declassified analysis argued against ...

Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building Yeltsin ordered shelled; right, Russian President Vladimir Putin with ...

Reporting from Yekaterinburg, Russia — Visitors to the Boris Yeltsin Museum start their tour with a small mockup of the hall where, on Oct. 21, 1987, the president of what was then the Russian ...

Boris Yeltsin, who pushed for democracy and a market economy as the first freely elected president of Russia, died Monday at age 76. A journalist and a professor discuss Yeltsin's legacy. August 1991, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

The first successful flight took off from North Carolina on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers developed the Wright ...

Russians have long been obsessed with privilege, and with motor vehicles as its symbol. So it stands to reason that the first three major exhibits in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre, which ...

This column was written by Nikolas K. Gvosdev. Boris Yeltsin is a lot like Ulysses S. Grant, and I think history will treat him in the same way as his American predecessor. Both men were heroes with ...

Yeltsin campaigning for president in 1991.Photo: AFP/Getty Images Boris Yeltsin, post-Soviet Russia’s first president, died today at 76 from a heart-related illness. He has, of course, little to ...