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Putin shakes hands with former Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the Kremlin in Moscow on December 31, 2000, a year after Yeltsin handed over the reins of power to Putin [File: Reuters] The first ...

Food Town closes location of former Randall's visited by Boris Yeltsin The grocery store may have played a role in the fall of Russian communism.

This footage hasn’t been seen in some time (Picture: kremlin.ru/east2west news) Boris Yeltsin (left) handed the presidency over to Vladimir Putin in 1999 (Picture: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ...

In 1999, then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned unexpectedly on New Year’s Eve, appointing his prime minister, Putin, as acting president.

His new term does not expire until 2030, when he will be constitutionally eligible to run again. When he succeeded Boris Yeltsin in 1999, Russia was emerging from economic collapse.

FILE - Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian Parliament building in Moscow, Russia on Monday, Aug. 19, 1991. The Soviet prime ...

Nevertheless, it will be a marked contrast to the funeral of Yeltsin, who was instrumental in sidelining Gorbachev as the Soviet Union fell apart and hand-picked Putin, a career KGB intelligence ...

Why does he seem to get so much of the blame for Russia’s precipitous economic and demographic collapse in the 1990s after the fall communism, instead of then president Boris Yeltsin and his ...

Demonstrators in front of the White House cheer a speech by Boris Yeltsin. Credit: Pascal Le Segretain / Sygma via Getty Images Gorbachev, released from his dacha, returned to Moscow that night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (like Dmitry Medvedev, Boris Yeltsin, and Mikhail Gorbachev before him) has a similar briefcase known as the Cheget, which he hasn't been shy about displaying on ...