In fact, Yeltsin actually lost the 1996 election, and the United States had to step in to secure his victory. There is now overwhelming evidence that the Communists won that election, but it was ...

09/16/1989 - Boris Yeltsin and a handful of Soviet companions made an unscheduled 20-minute visit to a Randall’s Supermarket after touring the Johnson Space Center. Between trying free samples ...

This footage hasn’t been seen in some time (Picture: kremlin.ru/east2west news) Boris Yeltsin (left) handed the presidency over to Vladimir Putin in 1999 (Picture: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Years later Yeltsin admitted this plan to Bill Clinton. J. COLBURN/IPOL/GLOBE PHOTOS, IN All the while, the Pravda-like US media could hardly contain its celebratory ecstasy at Harris’ coronation.

Boris Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931, in the village of Butka, Talitsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, which was then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, one of the republics ...

I didn't have any contact with him again until February 28, 2000, when Putin was already acting president after Yeltsin's departure on New Year's Eve, 1999. I sat in my institute doing research ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours ...

Yeltsin wouldn’t even meet him to hand-off the nuclear codes. (“I should have sent him off somewhere,” Gorbachev would tell an interviewer during a 2019 documentary.) ...

In 1992, President Boris Yeltsin even informed Russians that the conflict did not begin, as their textbooks had long told them, on June 22, 1941, when Hitler’s Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

Cracks emerge in Russian elite as tycoons start to bemoan invasion Oligarchs and financial officials are alarmed over the economic toll it’s taking and feel powerless to influence Putin ...