“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 ...

It was October 1987, three weeks before the 70th anniversary of the Russian revolution. The Soviet elite had gathered in Moscow to mark the occasion. Following the customarily lengthy speech by the ...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, was, besides much else, a prolific writer, penning three memoirs in his lifetime. The books are, at times, candid and revealing. Here ...

While there is much debate about the Boris Yeltsin’s checkered legacy, there is no debate about the towering influence he exerted on his country. He was a larger-than-life figure who changed Russia ...

It was the August coup of 1991, and the Soviet Union was on its knees, inexplicably crippled by stalwart communists who seized the Kremlin and declared themselves in charge of the USSR — a golden ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) - Former President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died Monday. He was 76. Kremlin ...

Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first popularly elected president, made a lasting impact on Russian Jewry, though his legacy included its share of controversy and tragic failures. Russian Jewish leaders agree ...