16 Yeltsin and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (left) aboard a boat with other officials on the Yenisei River in November 1997. Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015 near the walls of ...

Masha Gessen writes about a new museum dedicated to the life of Boris Yeltsin, which quietly offers commentary on the Putin era.

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 ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

Why People Are Comparing Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin 30 Years Later and Why They’re Wrong New revelations about Yeltsin’s shelling of Russia’s Duma are being completely misunderstood.

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.

FILE - Former President Boris Yeltsin, left, smiles as he talks to the then Russian acting President and Premier Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin, Russia, on Dec. 31, 1999. In a surprise address to ...

Under President Boris Yeltsin, Russia saw the introduction of capitalism. Some suffered economic hardship as a consequence, while others became rich overnight.

With the horrors of the war daily reported by the utterly free Russian media, the assault on Chechnya was condemned by Russian society, and Yeltsin promised to end the hostilities if elected ...

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 ...