Boris Tesyolkin, the commander of that tank, talked to CBS News about Yeltsin's life, career and impact on Russia.

Masha Gessen writes about a new museum dedicated to the life of Boris Yeltsin, which quietly offers commentary on the Putin era.

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 ...

Why People Are Comparing Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin 30 Years Later and Why They’re Wrong New revelations about Yeltsin’s shelling of Russia’s Duma are being completely misunderstood.

No one has to encourage Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, to stop beating around the bush and say what he means. Rhetorically, he is a blunt instrument. Yeltsin`s directness makes h… ...

FormerRussian 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 ...

Dramatically violating the constitution he swore to uphold, President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree abolishing the Russian Parliament, the Supreme Soviet, on Sept. 21, 1993. That set the stage for ...

MOSCOW -- In the West, Boris Yeltsin was a hero who leapt on a tank to defend Russia's fledgling democracy during an August 1991 putsch. In Russia, the country's first freely elected president ...

Russians were paying their last respects to former President Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday before a state funeral for the man who dismantled the Soviet Union and led Russia in its first chaotic years ...

Boris Yeltsin, the feisty, glowering ex-Communist leader whose dramatic feud with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev led to the collapse of the USSR and vaulted him into the presidency of a ...