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 ...

At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin led the political elite Wednesday in paying respects to Boris Yeltsin on the first anniversary of his death, unveiling a patriotic monument to the man who brought ...

Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who died yesterday at 76, led his people out of the bondage of communism but was never to see the promised land of a thriving market economy and a state ...

“The end crowns all,” William Shakespeare once wrote. On the face of it, Boris Yeltsin’s end was fabulous: Some 20,000 ordinary people, most leading Russian dignitaries, many world leaders and senior ...

April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...

The former head of the administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Sergei Filatov, has died at the age of 87. Filatov died on August 25, his daughter told the Petersburg Bulletin. Filatov ...

The failure of Hillary Clinton’s campaign to disclose that she has come down with pneumonia amplifies the parallels between this U.S. presidential election campaign and the 1996 contest that opposed ...

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 ...