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

Boris Yeltsin stands with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2000 (Photo: Itar Tass) Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system launchers roll during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9 ...

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

President Trump’s views of the G-7 summit as an economic forum rather than a beacon of democracy and his failure to understand the importance of international law and the sovereignty of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he constantly considers potential successors and confirmed he has a list of ... Putin himself was chosen as former President Boris Yeltsin's successor in 1999.

Russia's justice ministry said on Friday it had designated Andrei Kozyrev, the country's first post-Soviet foreign minister who later became a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, as a ...

Boris Berezovsky, an influential figure within Yeltsin’s inner circle, had known Putin since the early 1990s and, impressed by him, even offered to take him skiing in the Swiss Alps. (The future ...

Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, took over the presidency from Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999 and served as president till 2008, then as prime minister until 2012, and then again as ...