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 ...

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 ...

Four months later his great rival, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, engineered the break-up of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev found himself out of a job.

Then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin (left) and his US counterpart Bill Clinton (right) signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in Budapest in December 1994 Image: David Brauchli/AP Photo ...

Boris Yeltsin maintained that Gorbachev was well-informed while in Foros. “He knew everything and was waiting to see who would win,” Yeltsin said. Early on, the GKChP’s members themselves also claimed ...

Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Federation, makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian parliament building in Moscow, Russia. August 19, 1991.AP Photo, File ...

But now troops were questioning their loyalty to the Soviet government. Major Sergei Yevdokimov was in charge of the tanks surrounding the Russian parliament the night Yeltsin climbed aboard.

Marc Bennetts is a Moscow-based journalist and author of “I’m Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin’s War on Russia’s Opposition” (Oneworld, 2016). MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin had a reputation for the ...

In his late-November visit to the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, Putin may have revealed more about his position than he wants publicly to admit.

Once dubbed the “golden boy” of Russian politics in the media, Boris Nemtsov was later named first deputy prime minister by Yeltsin, a move that many interpreted as the Russian leader’s bid ...

Two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Boris Yeltsin in defiance of the attempted hardline coup in Moscow in 1991 look back on the critical hours when Russian democracy was saved - and share ...

Two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with Boris Yeltsin in defiance of the attempted hardline coup in Moscow in 1991 look back on the critical hours when Russian democracy was saved - and share ...