April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...

They came by the tens of thousands, some bearing posters depicting the jubilant face of Boris Yeltsin, others holding placards demanding the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev. By noon on a chilly Sunday, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's former President Boris Yeltsin was a hero for dismantling the Soviet Union but the democracy he bequeathed was dangerously fragile, Russian newspapers said on Tuesday.

Boris Yeltsin, the Russian leader who defied Red Army tanks and helped bring about the end of the Soviet Union, has died at age 76. He served as the freely elected president of Russia for nine years.

Russia's former president, Boris Yeltsin, has died. We remember him as the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union. You might recall visiting from 1991, communist hardliners had just ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One half of the old "Boris and Bill Show" departed the world stage on Monday with the death of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, leaving former President Bill Clinton with ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

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 ...

MINSK, 28 November (BelTA) - The film "Time Chose Us" on the Belarus 1 TV channel examined the timeline of the integration between Belarus and Russia that started in 1996 and culminated in the Union ...

I WILL NEVER FORGET the first time I saw Boris Yeltsin in person. It was in Dallas in September 1989--slightly less than two years after he was fired from his job as Moscow's chief Communist Party ...