Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin developed a penchant over 15 years in high office of jolting world leaders by committing gaffes, cracking off-color jokes or blurting out flippant comments.

What are we to make of the man who led post-Soviet Russia in its first nine years? Was he the “crude populist” and “erratic” and hard-drinking “quasi-autocrat” of the lore of many an expert and ...

Beginning in 1924, prominent guests of the publisher autographed leather-bound books during their visits to The Times’s headquarters. By David W. Dunlap A newly declassified analysis argued against ...

Boris Yeltsin, who pushed for democracy and a market economy as the first freely elected president of Russia, died Monday at age 76. A journalist and a professor discuss Yeltsin's legacy. August 1991, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Yeltsin, the former Russian president who died on Monday, was the first elected leader of the largest country on earth. That achievement alone ensures he will be remembered as ...

Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from Russia’s Revolution, a collection of essays to be published on Wednesday by AEI Press. What are we to make of the man who led post-Soviet Russia in its first ...