Aksyonenko, at one time a deputy prime minister in President Boris Yeltsin's Cabinet, and a one-time candidate to become Yeltsin's heir apparent, was on his way out since his political godfather ...

In 1935, when Boris was 4, Nikolai and Klavdia Yeltsin decided to look for work in the towns. Mikhail was born in Kazan, in Tatarstan, where their father briefly worked in an aviation factory.

Boris Yeltsin's legacy lives, both the good and the bad. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 50°F. Friday, February 28th 2025 Today's e-Edition. Home Page. Close Menu. News. News; ...

Strobe Talbott, who served as deputy secretary of State during the Clinton administration, got to know Boris Yeltsin as well as any U.S. official. From Yeltsin's days as maverick Moscow party chief ...

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 ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born Feb. 1, 1931, into a peasant family in the Ural Mountains’ Sverdlovsk region. When he was 3, his father was imprisoned in dictator Josef Stalin’s purges.

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation, is depicted in The Crown season 5. ... She says she considers this an act of great disrespect to her family's memory.

MOSCOW, April 23 -- Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday of heart failure, will be buried Wednesday in the history-rich clay of Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, where elites of ...

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.