Boris Yeltsin will be indelibly linked to the creation of democracy in Russia. By facing down the tanks outside the Russian Parliament, he showed that popular opinion could conquer authoritarianism.

Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, spent his 70th birthday in the hospital on Thursday, with a parade of visitors including his successor Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin, who was hospitalized ...

Russians have long been obsessed with privilege, and with motor vehicles as its symbol. So it stands to reason that the first three major exhibits in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre, which ...

Twenty years ago, Russians saw a New Year’s address from the country's first president, Boris Yeltsin, in which he announced his resignation and publicly asked for forgiveness. Here is the story ...

Boris Tesyolkin, the commander of that tank, talked to CBS News about Yeltsin's life, career and impact on Russia. I learned about Boris Yeltsin's death on the day he died, and naturally, I ...

Boris Yeltsin didn’t often speak with foreign journalists, and when he did, it was obvious he couldn’t stand us. In 1993, as Yeltsin hit the campaign trail before a referendum on his ...

Boris Yeltsin, the former President of Russia who died today aged 76, led Russians away from the bondage of Communism, but was never to see the promised land of a thriving market economy and a ...

FormerRussian 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 ...

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 ...

No one has to encourage Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, to stop beating around the bush and say what he means. Rhetorically, he is a blunt instrument. Yeltsin`s directness makes h… ...

On June 15, 1998, however, Clinton calls Yeltsin specifically to discuss Kosovo. He makes it clear that NATO is considering military action to stop Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević’s ...