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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want to stay in power beyond the end of his current term and will have stepped down by 2024, the chief of staff to Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin has ...

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 ...

PERHAPS IT WAS ONLY A trial balloon. At a private meeting with newspaper editors in Moscow last week, Boris Yeltsin reportedly indicated he would go back on his promise to face the voters next year.

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 ...