Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was what Russians would call a muzhik, a brawny, thick-necked man with a gnarled hand from a boy-hood prank involving grenades. He had a thatch of white hair, a drinker's ...
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born Feb. 1, 1931, in the village of Butka, the oldest of Nikolai and Klavdia Yeltsin’s three children. His early youth, harsh and impoverished, in many ways was a ...
MOSCOW (AP) -- 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 ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Following is a selection of reactions to the death on Monday of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who presided over the demise of the Soviet Union and Russia's transition to a ...
Over the course of his tumultuous stewardship as leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin suffered the ultimate comedown: from hero of his time to the object of public derision. At the outset, there was the ...
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 ...
MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, has died, a Kremlin official said today. He ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a day of mourning for Boris Yeltsin, who he said had helped give birth to a "new democratic Russia". Russia will pay its respects ...