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 ...
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 ...
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 ...