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Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., as his running mate.
This is the story of Russia's super rich and the man who rules over them. Putin came to power in 2000, when President Boris Yeltsin endorsed him as his successor. The oligarchs also supported Putin.
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President Trump's views of the G-7 summit as an economic forum rather than a beacon of democracy and his failure to understand the importance of international law and the sovereignty of other nations ...
Mondale lost in November to incumbent Ronald Reagan. In 1990, Boris Yeltsin quit the Soviet Communist Party, saying he wanted to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian republic.
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 ...
In 1978, Time magazine donated approximately eight hundred works of original cover art to the National Portrait Gallery. The museum is dedicated to telling the stories of individuals who have shaped ...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin marveled at the thousands of products available in 1989 — more, he said, than top Soviet leaders could access — and the lack of long lines, an ever-present ...
His decision punctuates a powerful ideological transition underway in the Republican Party, from Ronald Reagan's brand of traditional conservatism and strong international alliances, to the fiery ...