Yeltsin lost two fingers from his left hand as an 11-year-old after he stole two hand grenades from a storehouse and attempted to smash one open with a hammer. 5 Yeltsin poses with a lineup of ...

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 ...

Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at the age of 76, was in many ways a paradoxical figure. ... The boy, who lost two fingers of his left hand when a grenade he was playing with exploded, ...