A memorial to Boris Yeltsin has been vandalized in the first Russian president's native city of Yekaterinburg. Police said vandals removed letters from the memorial and poured a large amount of ...

Former President Boris Yeltsin, putting an end to Soviet practices in death as he did in life, ... The memorial looked like a reunion of some of the world’s most prominent figures of the 1990s.

MOSCOW — Former President Boris N. Yeltsin, putting an end to Soviet practices in death as he did in life, was buried Wednesday with Russian Orthodox rites. The service marked the first time 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 ...

The 76-year-old Yeltsin died Monday of heart failure and his memorial service was at the Russian Orthodox Christ. Top News . U.S ... Russia's first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, ...

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 76.

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 ...