When Boris Yeltsin's plane landed in Shannon last week on its way back to Moscow, the Irish prime minister was waiting on the tarmac to give him lunch. He waited and waited, but Yeltsin never got off ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin extended his greetings to the staff of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre Foundation (Yeltsin Centre) on its 10th anniversary.

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 ...

Boris Yeltsin, who pushed for democracy and a market economy as the first freely elected president of Russia, died Monday at age 76. A journalist and a professor discuss Yeltsin's legacy. August 1991, ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Russians lined-up on Tuesday outside a Moscow church to pay their respects to former President Boris Yeltsin, the man who dismantled the Soviet Union and led Russia in its first chaotic ...

THE DRAMA AND THE glow, what little there was, faded from Boris Yeltsin's standoff with the Russian Parliament last week. Five thousand police and special riot troops shivered outside the White House, ...

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 ...