MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Yeltsin's sobbing widow stooped over his open coffin to kiss his face on Wednesday before the first president of independent Russia was lowered into the ground to the boom of ...

Last week, the same Yekaterinburg court fined another official at the Yeltsin Center for reposting an anti-war message on social media three years ago, an act the court deemed illegal under a law ...

Lyudmila Telen, a top official at Russia's Yeltsin Center, was fined 45,000 rubles ($560) for reposting an anti-war message on social media. The court ruled her post, shared after Russia's invasion of ...

During the 1999 bombings and Chechnya escalation, Yeltsin quietly positions Putin as successor—sending him to meet Clinton, boosting his popularity from ~2% to ~30%+, and rigging the political setup ...

Mr. Zygar is a Russian journalist and the author of a book about Russia in the 1990s. An elderly president isn’t sure whether he should run for a second term. His approval ratings are low, and there ...

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 ...

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 ...