MOSCOW (Reuters) - He was a hero to some and a villain to others, but for reporters working with him, Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president who died on Monday, was an ideal newsmaker -- always open, ...

Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin said Thursday, in a snub of the former Soviet leader with whom the Russian President had a fraught relationship. Spokesman ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Russia's Justice Ministry has started investigating a museum dedicated to the late President Boris Yeltsin for possible activity as a "foreign agent," stated-owned agency RIA Novosti reported. The ...

They came by the tens of thousands, some bearing posters depicting the jubilant face of Boris Yeltsin, others holding placards demanding the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev. By noon on a chilly Sunday, ...

FILE PHOTO: Russian officials and family members of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin attend Yeltsin's funeral ceremony in Moscow LONDON (Reuters) -Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former ...

This is not from the State Visit to Russia, rather this is when Yeltsin visited the UK two years prior. Pictured are Naina Yeltsin, President Boris Yeltsin, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Philip at ...

According to Boris Yeltsin, Elizabeth II has remained a moral compass for her subjects throughout the years of her reign, a model of profound decency and devotion to her country YEKATERINBURG, ...

CNN host Ashleigh Banfield cringed with embarrassment on Monday after she misidentified Vladimir Putin as the man who resigned as Russia’s president 16 years ago: Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin was Russia’s ...

In “Putin Wants Ukraine Back in the U.S.S.R.” (op-ed, Dec. 30), David Satter cites an anonymous “high official” to the effect that the First Chechen War began because Russian President Boris Yeltsin ...

Oleg Shchedrov has worked as a Reuters correspondent in Moscow for 15 years and witnessed five regional conflicts following the break-up of the Soviet Union, three coups and the 1998 economic meltdown ...