Boris Tesyolkin, the commander of that tank, talked to CBS News about Yeltsin's life, career and impact on Russia. I learned about Boris Yeltsin's death on the day he died, and naturally, I ...

Aksyonenko, at one time a deputy prime minister in President Boris Yeltsin's Cabinet, and a one-time candidate to become Yeltsin's heir apparent, was on his way out since his political godfather ...

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 1935, when Boris was 4, Nikolai and Klavdia Yeltsin decided to look for work in the towns. Mikhail was born in Kazan, in Tatarstan, where their father briefly worked in an aviation factory.

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 ...

Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and his family were officially cleared yesterday after Russian prosecutors closed a lengthy investigation into a kickback scandal involving the Swiss firm ...

Boris Yeltsin's legacy lives, both the good and the bad. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 50°F. Friday, February 28th 2025 Today's e-Edition. Home Page. Close Menu. News. News; ...

Strobe Talbott, who served as deputy secretary of State during the Clinton administration, got to know Boris Yeltsin as well as any U.S. official. From Yeltsin's days as maverick Moscow party chief ...

Obituary: Boris Yeltsin Born in Yekaterinburg in 1931 Vladimir Putin, the current president, telephoned Naina Yeltsina, the former president’s widow, to express his deepest condolences, a ...

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.

2007-04-24 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Boris Yeltsin, the bearlike peasant who struck the deathblow that shattered the Soviet Union and served as the first president of the disorderly Russia that ...