MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin is best remembered for what may have been his finest hour. He scrambled atop a tank outside the Russian parliament building on Aug. 19, 1991, the day after then-President ...

Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building Yeltsin ordered shelled; right, Russian President Vladimir Putin with ...

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 ...

Russia's former president, Boris Yeltsin, has died. We remember him as the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union. You might recall visiting from 1991, communist hardliners had just ...

Two of the most vivid images of the late 20th century focused on tanks. One picture caught a Chinese dissident standing, briefcase in hand, in front of a communist tank during the siege of Tiananmen ...

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 ...

MOSCOW -- Boris Yeltsin was a courageous fighter, an instinctive democrat who helped dismantle the vast totalitarian apparatus of the Soviet state and its monolithic Communist Party, freeing millions ...

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 ...

BORIS YELTSIN: (Through translator) I am leaving. I'm stepping down before my time. I understand that I have to do this. Russia must enter the new millennium with new politicians, new faces and ...

As we mentioned, the man who oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union died today in Moscow. Boris Yeltsin was 76 years old. He was president of Russia for eight years, succeeding Soviet leader Mikhail ...

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 ...