Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 12. Check what happened ...

Today is Thursday, July 10, the 191st day of 2025. There are 174 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the German Luftwaffe ...

Italy is hosting a major conference in Rome to focus on rebuilding Ukraine as Russia intensifies its attacks. The event, which began Thursday, brings together political leaders, businesses, ...

Brown complained that I “even went so far as to minimize America’s security obligations under the Budapest Memorandum of which it was a signatory.” He believed that “one could argue that if any of the ...

By abolishing the liberal principles of democracy and equality of all citizens before the law that the first president Boris ...

Some reflections on the role of RFE/RL in bringing the voice and hope of freedom to the peoples subjugated by Moscow’s ...

The most iconic image from the visit showed Yeltsin gazing in wonder upon a cooler filled with frozen food. The technology ...

Boris Yeltsin annouced his resignation on the last day of the 20th Century Russian President Boris Yeltsin's shock resignation speech came in an address on Russian television on 31 December 1999. This ...

Boris Berezovsky, an influential figure within Yeltsin’s inner circle, had known Putin since the early 1990s and, impressed by him, even offered to take him skiing in the Swiss Alps.

Then-U.S. President Bill Clinton, Russia's leader at the time, Boris Yeltsin, and the Ukrainian President, Leonid Kravchuk, inked what became known as the Trilateral Statement in January 1994.

After Russia’s 1998 financial crash, its president, Boris Yeltsin, and the oligarchs around him scrambled to find a viable candidate to run against the Communists in the 2000 presidential election.

We were, to be sure, a bit enamored — first with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and then with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.