“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 ...

President Boris Yeltsin convened a constitutional assembly Saturday with the declared aim of putting a definitive end to the Soviet period in Russian history, but his main political opponents ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Hundreds of mourners – some weeping, many clutching flowers – filed past the open casket of former President Boris Yeltsin in a soaring cathedral Tuesday, paying tribute to a man who ...

April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...

Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who died yesterday at 76, led his people out of the bondage of communism but was never to see the promised land of a thriving market economy and a state ...

MOSCOW — Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...