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 ...

Yeltsin was born Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin on Feb. 1, 1931, in the village of Butka in Siberia. He graduated in 1955 from Urals Polytechnical Institute with a major in civil construction engineering.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was what Russians would call a muzhik, a brawny, thick-necked man with a gnarled hand from a boy-hood prank involving grenades. He had a thatch of white hair, a drinker ...

Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who died yesterday at 76, led his people out of the bondage of communism but was never to see the promised land of a thriving market economy and a state ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin led the political elite Wednesday in paying respects to Boris Yeltsin on the first anniversary of his death, unveiling a patriotic monument to the man ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

Boris Yeltsin's sobbing widow stooped over his open coffin to kiss his face on Wednesday before the first president of independent Russia was lowered into the ground to the boom of a six-gun salute.

MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin, who kicked the props out from under the tottering Soviet empire and then struggled to build a nation from its wreckage, died Monday after seeing many ...

The funeral of Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday has become a rallying point for those Russians who believe President Vladimir Putin has turned back many of his predecessor's democratic reforms.

Over the course of his tumultuous stewardship as leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin suffered the ultimate comedown: from hero of his time to the object of public derision. At the outset, there was ...

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. PublicAffairs, $26 (398pp) ISBN 978-1-58648-011-0. The title of Yeltsin's third book lacks the messianic fire of his first two volumes, Against the Grain and The ...