Two of the most vivid images of the late 20th century focused on tanks. One picture caught a Chinese dissident standing, briefcase in hand, in front of a communist tank during the siege of Tiananmen ...

“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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Hundreds of mourners – some weeping, many clutching flowers – filed past the open casket of former President Boris Yeltsin in a soaring cathedral Tuesday, paying tribute to a man who ...

MOSCOW -- Boris Yeltsin was a courageous fighter, an instinctive democrat who helped dismantle the vast totalitarian apparatus of the Soviet state and its monolithic Communist Party, freeing millions ...

MINSK, 27 November (BelTA) – The film “Time Chose Us” on the Belarus 1 TV channel shows footage of the first meeting of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in ...