The late politician's views on economic policy were dramatically affected by what he saw in Randall's in 1989.
Sunday, 3 October 1993 was an ordinary, pleasant October day in Moscow. With the resident BBC Bureau Producer, Kate Whyte, and the visiting BBC Correspondent, Bill Turnbull, I drove to Oktyabrskaya ...
AS A reporter in Russia in the 1990s, I covered the ways in which a handful of oligarchs made out like bandits in the ...
The Webster Food Town, once a Randall's Grocery visited by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, has recently shuttered.
Exploring echoes of Russian oligarchs in America's emerging tech elite, their political influence, and the risks they face.
Marking 25 years in office, Vladimir Putin says he has remade Russia as a sovereign power and will prevail in Ukraine, but ...
Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s infamous no-show at Shannon Airport was a big news story in 1994 and newly released archive files shed much new light on the background to the incident.
It was one of the most iconic images of 1994, taoiseach Albert Reynolds and senior ministers left on the red carpet at Shannon Airport waiting in vain for Russian president Boris Yeltsin to emerge ...
After the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was an urgent necessity to preserve the relations between Russia and Africa.
I will never forget New Year's Eve 1999. I was working as a producer in the BBC's Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking ...
During a visit to the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg in December, two visitors spotted eyes drawn in ballpoint pen on Anna Leporskaya's work Three Figures. The avant-garde painting features three ...