Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building ...

In September 1989, Boris Yeltsin came to America. At the time, he was a rising political figure inside the Soviet Union – a ...

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 and ...

The Clinton Digital Library has released more than a 1000 pages of documents related to American/Russian relations in the 1990s. These documents include hitherto secret transcripts of talks between ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Russian officials and family members of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin attend Yeltsin's funeral ceremony in ...

MOSCOW — 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 ...

Three decades after Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated as Russia's first president, images made by his personal photographers offer a fascinating glimpse into the Yeltsin presidency -- and Russia -- ...

Lyudmila Telen, a top official at Russia's Yeltsin Center, was fined 45,000 rubles ($560) for reposting an anti-war message on social media. The court ruled her post, shared after Russia's invasion of ...

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 ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin died today, leaving behind a legacy of dubious democratization in Russia along with the still-unburied body of Communist visionary Vladimir Lenin. Yeltsin pushed ...

In “The Successor,” the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy. By David Kortava Beginning in 1924, ...