Various excuses were offered for Russian president Boris Yeltsin's no-show at Shannon Airport in 1994, he was "indisposed", ...

Russian president Boris Yeltsin ’s infamous no-show at Shannon Airport was a big news story in 1994 and newly released ...

Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and group of dignitaries were left standing on the red carpet when Mr Yeltsin stayed on board the ...

The newly discovered memo, written in March 1994 by Wayne Merry, chief of the U.S. Embassy’s internal politics division at ...

During Vladimir Putin’s 4.5-hour end-of-year press conference on Thursday, BBC journalist Steve Rosenberg asked the Russian ...

For the church, it was the “year of the paedophile priest”, then-religious affairs correspondent Andy Pollak wrote. Fr ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was challenged by a BBC journalist to defend his 25-year rule, the struggling economy and ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Russian President was characteristically measured as he took part in the Kremlin's choreographed annual ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he pulled Russia from the "edge of an abyss" during his 25-year rule. Speaking at a ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss after the chaos which ...

The BBC's Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, has challenged Vladimir Putin on whether he has "taken care" of Russia during his ...