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. Section: Gallery. Mon., April 23, 2007. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin waves to journalists as he leaves the 'German Heart Centre' hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006.

Dramatically violating the constitution he swore to uphold, President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree abolishing the Russian Parliament, the Supreme Soviet, on Sept. 21, 1993. That set the stage for ...

Boris N. Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became the first freely elected leader of Russia and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

Many associate the former Russian president more with Russia's decline than with the USSR's demise.

No picture better tells the story of Russia's failed 1991 coup than that of a fist-pumping Boris Yeltsin defying Communist hard-liners from the top ... The new union treaty was to be signed Aug. 20.

That was how the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, announced his resignation on December 31, 1999. ... the pen with which he signed decrees (including the decree on his resignation).

Russian President Boris Yeltsin's shock resignation speech came in an address on Russian television on 31 December 1999. This is the full ... I have signed a decree entrusting the duties of the ...

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.