Yeltsin connected with people time and time again during that campaign – at factories, in auditoriums, in schools, on street corners and even at a rock concert.

FormerRussian 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 ...

Yeltsin said he was not resigning for reasons of health, although in the past few years he has more often been ailing than well. Instead, the 68-year-old president said, ...

Boris Yeltsin, first president of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, died on Monday at age 76. National Review Online asked David Satter, of Hoover, Hudson, and Johns Hopkins, and author of… ...

Yeltsin’s intentions may have been laudable, at least initially, but freedom and democracy never truly flourished under his presidency. During Russia’s constitutional crisis of 1993 Yeltsin ...

Yeltsin, indeed, was an extraordinary person, if not to say peculiar. On some occasions, instead of behaving like a president of a country of more than a hundred million, ...

On Yeltsin’s five-man construction crew, which specializes in sprawling apartment complexes, he’s the only one with a car-a clunky Zhiguli badly in need of engine work that he can’t afford.

Thirty years ago this month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell the parliament—a wedding cake–style building in downtown Moscow called the White House—and then to arrest ...

Yeltsin is abhorred by the Bush world-orderlies as a bumptious arriviste for having deposed their beloved Communist smoothie. It`s always so awkward having to deal with elected leaders.

In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism. It was Sept. 16, 1989, and Yeltsin, then newly-elected to the new Soviet ...