MOSCOW — Thousands of mourners filed past the open casket of former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin on Tuesday as his body lay in state in Moscow’s main cathedral, which was demolished in ...

"We will do everything so that the memory of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, his noble thoughts, and his words 'protect Russia' always serve us as moral and political guidelines," Putin said in a ...

2007-04-24 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Boris Yeltsin, the bearlike peasant who struck the deathblow that shattered the Soviet Union and served as the first president of the disorderly Russia that ...

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 ...

Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, spent his 70th birthday in the hospital on Thursday, with a parade of visitors including his successor Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin, who was hospitalized ...

Early Stalinism Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born in the dark days of early Stalinism, on Feb. 1, 1931, in the Ural Mountains village of Butka, near Yekaterinburg.

Yeltsin was born Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin on Feb. 1, 1931, in the village of Butka in Siberia. He graduated in 1955 from Urals Polytechnical Institute with a major in civil construction engineering.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born Feb. 1, 1931, into a peasant family in the Ural Mountains’ Sverdlovsk region. When he was 3, his father was imprisoned in dictator Josef Stalin’s purges.

Born Feb. 1, 1931, to a peasant family in the Sverdlovsk region of western Russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin won Russia’s first popular presidential election in a landslide in June 1991.

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 Monday. He was 76.

For a few brief years, before alcoholism and corruption caused his political downfall, the Russian people embraced Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.

The son of peasants Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born in the dark days of early Stalinism, on Feb. 1, 1931, in the Ural Mountains village of Butka, near Yekaterinburg.