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 ...

Yeltsin, who became Russia's president in 1991 and survived two armed uprisings by hardline communists, resigned suddenly Dec. 31 after suffering several heart attacks and being hospitalized with ...

U.S. leaders also have spent years engaging ad nauseam in threats to weaken or break up Russia, to ruin the Russian economy, to change the Russian regime—and, of course, have levied decades of ...

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

Kozyrev, who is 74 and lives in the United States, served as Russian foreign minister under then President Boris Yeltsin after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union at a time when a liberalising ...

Boris Yeltsin, who played a key role in the Soviet Union's demise and became Russia's first president, has died aged 76, the Kremlin says. Mr Yeltsin - who had a history of heart trouble - died of ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: "Take care of Russia." Now, 25 years later, the question ...

In his letter “Russia Was Never Predestined for Putinism” (Jan. 12), responding to my op-ed “Putin Wants Ukraine Back in the U.S.S.R.” (Dec. 30), Leon Aron argues that history is filled ...

The Russian constitutional framework, political system, economy, and society were all in a state of chaos when Yeltsin came to power and Russia’s and Yeltsin’s political frailty amplified each ...

Russia's justice ministry said on Friday it had designated Andrei Kozyrev, the country's first post-Soviet foreign minister who later became a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, as a ...