Thousands of somber and tearful mourners move past the open coffin of former President Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday, lighting candles and crossing themselves to the sound of chanted Orthodox prayers as ...

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It was October 1987, three weeks before the 70 th anniversary of the Russian revolution. The Soviet elite had gathered in Moscow to mark the occasion. Following the customarily lengthy speech by the ...

Russians have long been obsessed with privilege, and with motor vehicles as its symbol. So it stands to reason that the first three major exhibits in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre, which ...

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 ...

ONCE AGAIN, PROTESTERS formed a protective cordon around the White House, Russia's Parliament building, shouting their defiance of the government. Once again, legislators hunkered down inside, ...

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 ...

Three decades after Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated as Russia's first president, images made by his personal photographers offer a fascinating glimpse into the Yeltsin presidency -- and Russia -- ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin died today, leaving behind a legacy of dubious democratization in Russia along with the still-unburied body of Communist visionary Vladimir Lenin. Yeltsin pushed ...

Boris Yeltsin didn’t often speak with foreign journalists, and when he did, it was obvious he couldn’t stand us. In 1993, as Yeltsin hit the campaign trail before a referendum on his leadership, I ...