During the 1999 bombings and Chechnya escalation, Yeltsin quietly positions Putin as successor—sending him to meet Clinton, boosting his popularity from ~2% to ~30%+, and rigging the political setup ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin led the political elite Wednesday in paying respects to Boris Yeltsin on the first anniversary of his death, unveiling a patriotic monument to the man who brought ...

After arriving in Moscow, Putin quickly leapfrogs into a top Kremlin oversight role as Yeltsin reshuffles in 1997—right as ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the man once hailed as Russia's bold political reformer, has died at 76. For nine years, Yeltsin served as Russia's first freely elected president, engineering ...

The Russian leader welcomed his Belarusian counterpart at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The meeting between Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin was held in a one-on-one format ahead of ...

When protesters staged the largest ever demonstrations of post-Soviet times in 2011-12, “Russia without Putin” was one of ...