the only brother of President Boris Yeltsin. And when people ask him why he hasn’t cashed in on his family connections and made a better life for himself, he shakes his head gently at the ...

It was a spring day 17 years ago when Boris Yeltsin came out ... in May 1990, the week Yeltsin became head of the Russian parliament. Ivan and his family would have been living in a tiny state ...

In his first interview with Western media since resigning New Year's Eve, a combative former Russian President Boris Yeltsin tells 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace that democracy is firmly established in ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931, into a peasant family in the Ural mountains. He was a local Communist Party chief in the 1960s and '70s. In 1985, Gorbachev brought Yeltsin ...

“Boris Yeltsin ruled the country at the most difficult time and this could not but impact on the health of such a naturally strong and healthy man,” he said. Yeltsin was born to a peasant ...

Born to a peasant family in the Ural mountains in 1931, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin advanced through the Communist Party hierarchy. He became party secretary in Sverdlovsk, a secret city heavily ...

Boris Yeltsin was a Russian politician ... official in the city where Ipatiev House was located - where the Romanov family were executed in 1918. Yeltsin visits the palace and during lunch ...

Boris Yeltsin's finest moment came in August 1991 ... Viktor Ilyushin used to call him -- came from a downtrodden family. The young Yeltsin, who had almost drowned in the baptismal font while ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born Feb. 1, 1931, into a peasant family in the Ural Mountains’ Sverdlovsk region. When he was 3, his father was imprisoned in dictator Josef Stalin’s purges but ...