I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” said ...

Trump's seeming astonishment at Putin shows a reassuring horror at mass slaughter but also an innocence of knowledge about ...

Gessen makes a comparison between Putin's presidency in Russia and Donald Trump's second presidency in the United States — ...

Had the US Navy built its originally planned fleet of 29 Seawolf-class submarines in the 1990s, instead of just three, ...

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

Boris Yeltsin, who played a key role in the Soviet Union's demise ... He won international acclaim as a defender of democracy when in August 1991 he mounted a tank in Moscow. In what became one of the ...

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.

Yeltsin was a charismatic and unconventional politician who appeared to relish political drama and theatrical public appearances such as his most famous speech, made from the top of a tank during ...

Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building Yeltsin ordered shelled; right, Russian President Vladimir Putin with ...

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 ...

FILE - Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian Parliament building in Moscow, Russia on Monday, Aug. 19, 1991. The Soviet prime ...

Boris Yeltsin's son-in-law has quit his role as a ... In addition, several thousand Russian military vehicles - including tanks, aircraft and mobile artillery units - have been destroyed in ...