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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

President Bill Clinton begged Boris Yeltsin not to allow the military campaign against Slobodan Milošević to destroy their relationship. Photograph by Ira Wyman / Sygma / Getty ...

In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism. It was Sept. 16, 1989, and Yeltsin, then newly-elected to the new Soviet ...