Boris Yeltsin didn’t often speak with foreign journalists, and when he did, it was obvious he couldn’t stand us. In 1993, as Yeltsin hit the campaign trail before a referendum on his leadership, I ...

"Great historical transformations are always bought dearly, often after one has already thought that one got them at a bargain price," wrote the 19th-century historian Jacob Burckhardt. Tomorrow marks ...

FILE PHOTO: Russian officials and family members of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin attend Yeltsin's funeral ceremony in Moscow LONDON (Reuters) -Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of late Russian President Boris Yeltsin and one of the key politicians who helped President Vladimir Putin come to power in 1999, has quit the unsalaried post of ...

India and the Soviet Union shared friendly and cooperative relations during the Cold War, but the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the emergence of a unipolar world left India in the lurch. In 1993, ...

Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first popularly elected president, made a lasting impact on Russian Jewry, though his legacy included its share of controversy and tragic failures. Russian Jewish leaders agree ...

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 ...

Authorities charged an artistic director at the Yeltsin Center with “discrediting the Russian armed forces” -- the second employee of the library and cultural center dedicated to the late Russian ...

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 ...