Two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Boris Yeltsin in defiance of the attempted hardline coup in Moscow in 1991 look back on the ... He climbed up onto a tank and he made the famous speech." ...

Boris Yeltsin dies at 76. Skip to content. ... and Yeltsin finally turned tanks against the parliament building. ... Russians expected another halting speech on New Year’s Eve 1999, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 ...

April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...

Yeltsin cast himself as a fearless defender of Russia against tyranny in August 1991, adds Palmer, when he jumped on a tank and rallied Russians against a coup threatening then-Soviet leader ...

Two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Boris Yeltsin in defiance of the attempted hardline coup in Moscow in 1991 look back on the critical hours when Russian democracy was saved - and share ...

MOSCOW — 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 ...

Two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Boris Yeltsin in defiance of the attempted hardline coup in Moscow in 1991 look back on the ... He climbed up onto a tank and he made the famous speech." ...