Russian President Boris Yeltsin officially resigned on Dec. 31, 1999, anointing Vladimir Putin, then prime minister ... Protesters hold pictures of former Yukos chief and Kremlin opposer Mikhail ...

Putin’s childhood in St. Petersburg was rife with hardship, but he learned to become a wily street fighter and scrappy underdog. His ambition was rewarded with admission to the Soviet ...

Vladimir Putin has never commented in detail and ... but it discusses exclusively their childhood. Their photos did not appear in the press, and it was unknown where they studied, what they ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is “fulfilling his childhood dream of becoming a mass murderer” akin to Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin, according to a Nato state foreign minister. The 72-year ...