Vladimir Putin is considering naming a former bodyguard who once saved his life as his official successor, a Pulitzer-winning ...

Deep in the Southern Ural Mountains, Mount Yamantau stands as Russia’s highest peak in the region. But what lies beneath may ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

In a surprise announcement, Boris Yeltsin handed over to Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer whom he had chosen a few months earlier to be his prime minister. Putin has now ruled, in one guise or ...

When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a man with whom Washington could do business. President Bill Clinton ...

I recently had a chance to find out. More than four hours into his lengthy end-of-year press conference, Putin invited me to ask a question. "Boris Yeltsin told you to take care of Russia," I ...

According to him, when Putin was named as successor to Boris Yeltsin in 1999, he was virtually unknown outside of Russian politics and even inside the country, his approval rating was low.

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia ... And that was Vladimir Putin, until then a political nobody. “He was so cool and collected, I was wary of him at first,” Yeltsin would later ...

A quarter of a century has now passed since Boris Yeltsin's ceding of ... In 2000, the election of Putin, already acting in place of Yeltsin, was held on 26 March and saw the victory of the ...

The Soviet Union's collapse and America's current decline have remarkable similarities. The Soviet Union failed because it marginalized the entrepren ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during ... succeeded by current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin died in 2007 at the age of 76.

This past New Year’s Eve marked 25 years since Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin, then prime minister, stepped into the position on an acting basis ...