Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was ...

“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 ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin developed a penchant over 15 years in high office of jolting world leaders by committing gaffes, cracking off-color jokes or blurting out flippant comments.

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 ...

Hundreds of Russians lined-up on Tuesday outside a Moscow church to pay their respects to former President Boris Yeltsin, the man who dismantled the Soviet Union and led Russia in its first chaotic ...

In his case, this is not a cliché. He loved passionately whatever he did: his politics, sports, travel, scabrous jokes, food, and wine. And he loved women, who were to him the best part of life.

MOSCOW (AP) — Gennady Burbulis, a top aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin who helped prepare and sign the 1991 pact that led to the formal breakup of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 76. As ...

MOSCOW -- Boris Yeltsin was laid to rest Wednesday alongside writers, composers and artists in a funeral that was laden with the religious trappings given to Russia's czars but which also broke with ...

The former head of the administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Sergei Filatov, has died at the age of 87. Filatov died on August 25, his daughter told the Petersburg Bulletin. Filatov ...

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 ...