Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was ...

American-style political campaigning meets former-Soviet subterfuge in “Spinning Boris,” based on the true story of a trio of elite U.S. consultants hired by Russian businessmen to steer President ...

BORIS YELTSIN would have ranked among the best of czars or commissars. It was Russia’s great tragedy that, instead, he was a would-be democrat. Today, we mourn the Russia that Yeltsin could have built ...

“The end crowns all,” William Shakespeare once wrote. On the face of it, Boris Yeltsin’s end was fabulous: Some 20,000 ordinary people, most leading Russian dignitaries, many world leaders and senior ...

MOSCOW (AP) - Gennady Burbulis, a top aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin who helped prepare and sign the 1991 pact that led to the formal breakup of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 76. As ...