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 ...

FormerRussian President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, was, besides much else, a prolific writer, penning three memoirs in his lifetime. The books are, at times, candid and revealing ...

For all his shortcomings, Boris Yeltsin's accomplishments were far-ranging and unrivalled. Remembering Russia's first freely elected leader.

Reading that speech now, it’s hard to see what the fuss was all about. Yeltsin complained that the party was lacking in “revolutionary spirit” and that the Soviet people were suffering from ...

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 ...

April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...

It is one of the abiding images of modern Russian history, the famous picture of Boris Yeltsin speaking on a tank outside the parliament in Moscow on 19 August 1991.