T he grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

The personality they chose as independent Russia's first president—Boris Yeltsin—lacked Washington's respect for the rule of ...

“On one side of [the battlefield] are the crooks who have seized power in our country, and on the other are people who want ...

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 ...

When the former Soviet republics declared independence in the early 1990s, Ukraine became the owner of the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.

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 ...

The decision of Belarus and Russia to create the Union State was the only right one, Belarusian President Aleksandr ...

In 1999, then-president Boris Yeltsin dismissed his prime minister at the time, promoting former KGB officer Mr. Putin in his place. Oil prices rose as hopes of an imminent end to the war in ...

That changed profoundly after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s. US and West European ...

Through his close relationship with the longtime chief of staff to Boris Yeltsin, Berezovsky became part of the former president's inner circle. In 1996, he led Russia's most powerful tycoons to ...

The controversial program was administered through auctions, but only select bidders were invited to attend, usually at the discretion of President Boris Yeltsin's daughter. Potanin was among the ...