It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

Kozyrev, who is 74 and lives in the United States, served as Russian foreign minister under then President Boris Yeltsin after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union at a time when a liberalising ...

Later he joined the freewheeling media landscape of 1990s Russia, when Boris Yeltsin opened the economy ... was to a British woman, and he sent one of his sons to a private school in the British ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

The Webster Food Town, once a Randall's Grocery visited by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, has recently shuttered. A large sign reading, "This location closed," could be seen on the store ...

It was one of the most iconic images of 1994, taoiseach Albert Reynolds and senior ministers left on the red carpet at Shannon Airport waiting in vain for Russian president Boris Yeltsin to emerge ...

Irish officials believed the Russian ambassador to Ireland, Nikolai Kozyrev, was “exquisitely embarrassed” by the failure of his president, Boris Yeltsin, to emerge from a plane to meet the ...

Swimming pool problems for Ireland’s ... Around the world, the mercurial figure of Boris Yeltsin captured international attention as Russia’s transition from communism took shape.

Russian ambassador ‘exquisitely embarrassed’ over ‘drunken’ Boris Yeltsin’s inability to leave plane during Shannon stopover to meet Albert Reynolds Russia was very grateful to Ireland ...

Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s infamous no-show at Shannon Airport was a big news story in 1994 and newly released archive files shed much new light on the background to the incident.