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 ...

By abolishing the liberal principles of democracy and equality of all citizens before the law that the first president Boris ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 12. Check what happened ...

Boris Yeltsin annouced his resignation on the last day of the 20th Century Russian President Boris Yeltsin's shock resignation speech came in an address on Russian television on 31 December 1999. This ...

In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

The building was considered the ultimate in taste for the period after the Civil War ...

The most iconic image from the visit showed Yeltsin gazing in wonder upon a cooler filled with frozen food. The technology that yielded this scene of abundance happened to have been pioneered by ...

A cold snap has begun in Russian-Azerbaijani relations. And already the second in a year. In these conditions, it is worth ...

Another mysterious death in Moscow has raised eyebrows as it marks the alleged 13th sudden passing of a Russian energy and ...

In 1869, a group of prospectors led by Montreal mining engineer Thomas McFarlane discovered a rich vein of galena near Prince Arthur's Landing on Lake Superior, which later became the Silver Islet ...