Exiled Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan tell Newsweek about Vladimir Putin's crackdown and their book ...

By abolishing the liberal principles of democracy and equality of all citizens before the law that the first president Boris ...

What is one to make of Russia, of that vast mystery now unraveling? Is it the best of times or the worst of times? What is one to say when an American scholar-one who knows more about the Russians ...

In his first interview with Western media since resigning New Year's Eve, a combative former Russian President Boris Yeltsin tells 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace that democracy is firmly established in ...

2 Russian President Boris Yeltsin addresses a crowd of workers at the Kirov plant in Leningrad on March 23, 1991 (AFP) - Yeltsin was brought to Moscow from the Urals city of Sverdlovsk by Soviet ...

YELTSIN: A Revolutionary LifeBy Leon AronSt. Martin’s, 934 pages, $35During a summer break from college, the young Boris Yeltsin asked friends to join him on a trip across the Soviet Union. When ...

Thirty years ago this month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell the parliament—a wedding cake–style building in downtown Moscow called the White House—and then to arrest ...

Boris N. Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became the first freely elected leader of Russia and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

Boris N. Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became the first freely elected leader of Russia and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union ...