As the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin introduced market reforms, privatization, and democratic institutions. However, the 1990s were marked by economic collapse, rampant corruption, and the ...

The Crown season 5, episode 6, “Ipatiev House”, sees Queen Elizabeth attempting to reckon with her family’s history as Philip distances himself.

When Boris Yeltsin looked for a successor who would guarantee his own and his family’s safety, Putin’s name came up.

The Russian Federation’s first President, Boris Yeltsin, wrote in his 1994 memoir that he was choosing “a path of internal development rather than an imperial one.” ...

Boris Yeltsin, who became the first president of Russia as the Soviet Union was collapsing, was Communist Party leader in Sverdlovsk. That gave the region a reformist reputation.

On June 12, Russia celebrates its Independence Day. The commemoration was instituted by President Boris Yeltsin in 1992 to a collective shrug—“Who did Russia declare independence from ...

He therefore advised Leonid Brezhnev to raze it, and Brezhnev’s orders were swiftly and efficiently carried out by the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk region, who happened to be Boris Yeltsin.

In 1998, Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin shocked the nation with a last-minute decision to speak at the reburial of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, 80 years after their murder.

Gorbachev’s reforms led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. From the ruins, Boris Yeltsin built the corrupt foundations of the current political system.