MOSCOW — Thousands of mourners filed past the open casket of former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin on Tuesday as his body lay in state in Moscow’s main cathedral, which was demolished in ...

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 ...

Born Feb. 1, 1931, to a peasant family in the Sverdlovsk region of western Russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin won Russia’s first popular presidential election in a landslide in June 1991.

MOSCOW, April 23 -- Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday of heart failure, will be buried Wednesday in the history-rich clay of Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, where elites of ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was what Russians would call a muzhik, a brawny, thick-necked man with a gnarled hand from a boy-hood prank involving grenades. He had a thatch of white hair, a drinker ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born Feb. 1, 1931, into a peasant family in the Ural Mountains' Sverdlovsk region. As a mischievous child, he lost his thumb and index finger while playing with a ...

MOSCOW – Boris Yeltsin, the bearish peasant who struck the deathblow that shattered the Soviet Union and served as the first president of the disorderly Russia that emerged, died Monday. He was ...

Boris Yeltsin Turns 70. January 30, 2001 / 7:30 AM EST / AP Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, spent ... which Boris Nikolayevich (Yeltsin) probably will not like." ...

Yeltsin was born Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin on Feb. 1, 1931, in the village of Butka in Siberia. He graduated in 1955 from Urals Polytechnical Institute with a major in civil construction engineering.

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 ...

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.

MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin, the bearish peasant who struck the deathblow that shattered the Soviet Union and served as the first president of the disorderly Russia that emerged, died ...