On New Year's Eve 1999 the Russian President went on TV and said he was leaving office. Tired and emotional, he apologised to the people for the state of the country. Show more On New Year's Eve ...

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, died 15 years ago today. He was 76. Still fresh in my memory is an image of Yeltsin on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. During a failed ...

Famous as the first freely-elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin stood by his country for better or worse – in politics as well as his favorite pastime, tennis. But last week, the world lost ...

Swedish economist Ander Äslund, Boris Yeltsin's former adviser when he held the Russian presidency, accused Vladimir Putin of having turned Russia into a kind of North Korea following the ...

Vladimir Putin expressed his hope that, one day, he would be able to name a person he considers worthy of leading Russia MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The first President of the Russian Federation ...