It is one of the abiding images of modern Russian history, the famous picture of Boris Yeltsin speaking on a tank outside the parliament in Moscow on 19 August 1991. It was a moment when the ...

Thirty years ago this month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell the parliament—a wedding cake–style building in downtown Moscow called the White House—and then to arrest ...

Climbing aboard a tank outside the Russian parliament, a champion arrived. Boris Yeltsin, who had been crusading to pull Russia out of the USSR and transform it into a free market democracy in the ...

MOSCOW – No picture better tells the story of Russia's failed 1991 coup than that of a fist-pumping Boris Yeltsin defying Communist hard-liners from the top of a tank. Those who were by Yeltsin ...

Boris Yeltsin's finest moment came in August 1991, when he stood on a tank in Moscow and opposed the hardline leaders of a coup against Gorbachev. But the former Russian president, who died Monday ...

Former 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 democracy ...

Boris Yeltsin, the feisty ... inspiring crowds from the top of a tank near Russia's parliament building. It was his finest moment. Though Gorbachev was released when the coup collapsed, he ...

August 1991, Boris Yeltsin made his mark on world history. Standing atop a tank in Moscow and cheered on by some 50,000 supporters, Yeltsin denounced the coup orchestrated by hard-liners and the ...

It is one of the abiding images of modern Russian history, the famous picture of Boris Yeltsin speaking on a tank outside the parliament in Moscow on 19 August 1991. It was a moment when the ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — No picture better tells the story of Russia’s failed 1991 coup than that of a fist-pumping Boris Yeltsin defying Communist hard-liners from the top of a tank. Those who were by ...