Nevertheless, Putin’s New Year’s message remained upbeat. He looked ahead to the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Soviet ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: "Take care of Russia." Now, 25 years later, the question ...

exactly 25 years since Putin took over from predecessor Boris Yeltsin, who resigned unexpectedly on the last day of 1999. “And now, on the threshold of the New Year, we are thinking about the ...

(Andy Wong/AP) The year 2000 opened with Russian President Boris Yeltsin stepping down before ... not the end of it. The new millennium brought the Sept. 11 attacks, misadventures in Iraq, the ...

Putin was named acting president on New Year's Eve in 1999, when predecessor Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and apologised for the country's post-Soviet turmoil in a speech that stunned Russians.

I will never forget New Year's Eve 1999. I was working as a producer in the BBC's Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia's President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down. His decision ...

The late politician's views on economic policy were dramatically affected by what he saw in Randall's in 1989.

The Globe and Mail spoke to Terence McKenna, the documentary’s narrator and writer, about the unlearned lessons of Putin’s ...

December 31, 1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin took to the airwaves to make ... a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. This New Year’s Eve, when Putin addresses Russians, he will be ...

Boris Yeltsin (L) announced he would be resigning immediately and handing over presidential powers to Vladimir Putin on 31 December 1999 I will never forget New Year's Eve 1999. I was working as a ...

Moscow, Russia - President Vladimir Putin praised his country's achievements in a New Year's Eve speech Tuesday, saying Russians should be "proud" of what the country had done during his quarter ...