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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Boris Yeltsin staggers through the 1996 election with collapsing health, media manipulation, and Western backing, a quiet but decisive loss in Saint Petersburg forces Putin out of city politics.

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 (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 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 ...