Russia's justice ministry said on Friday it had designated Andrei Kozyrev, the country's first post-Soviet foreign minister who later became a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, as a "foreign ...

"Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin did not hand this power over to me. Under our law, our basic law [the Constitution], when a president resigns, then a Chairman of the Government of the Russian ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that April 25th will be a national day of mourning and the country will pay its respects to Yeltsin. 'Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first ...