In this book, Satter tells the story of the apartment bombings and how Boris Yeltsin presided over the criminalization of Russia, why Vladimir Putin was chosen as his successor, and how Putin has ...

A watershed year for Russia’s ties with China shows the role of domestic politics in driving “great power relations.” The open ambitions of rising political star Bo Xilai were partly ...

Negative comments on Yeltsin’s role is noticeable among young people, for whom the first Russian president is "no more than a historical personality." MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Over the past ...

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 ...

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 ...

December 31, 1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin took to the airwaves to make a surprise announcement, telling his fellow countrymen that he would step aside for his prime minister to take over ...

He was expelled from Russia after claiming that Putin and the FSB were behind the apartment bombings Satter: In the summer of 1999 the approval rating of former President Yeltsin was 2%.

Around the world, the mercurial figure of Boris Yeltsin captured international attention as Russia’s transition from communism took shape. Elsewhere, slaughter in the Balkans and Rwanda made for ...