Naina Yeltsina bids farewell to her husband in Moscow today (AFP) April 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Russia today laid to rest its first post-Soviet president, Boris ... as a swimming pool until Yeltsin ...

London, England (CNN)-- One could argue long into the night about his political legacy, but when it comes to tennis most people agree about Boris Yeltsin ... in between Russia's women sealed ...

Former Russian President Boris ... image of Yeltsin living life in an alcoholic fog might be forever captured in a 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of him dancing on stage with girls in ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died. We remember him as the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union. He served nine years as the first freely elected president of Russia.

Boris Yeltsin, who pushed for democracy and a market economy as the first freely elected president of Russia, died Monday at age 76. A journalist and a professor discuss Yeltsin's legacy.

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of an independent Russia, has died at the age of 76, reportedly of heart failure. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, son of Siberian peasants, began his career ...

Dec. 30), David Satter cites an anonymous “high official” to the effect that the First Chechen War began because Russian President Boris Yeltsin wanted a victory to boost his ratings.

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The death of President Boris Yeltsin is to Russian society a counterpart to the death of U.S. president Richard Nixon in 1994 in that both men were complex, almost puzzling leaders whose ...

In October 1994, president Boris Yeltsin hosted Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Russia. It was the first—and only—time a reigning British monarch made a state visit to the country ...

Thirty years ago this month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell the parliament—a wedding cake–style building in downtown Moscow called the White House—and then to arrest ...

April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...