After President Boris Yeltsin’s controversial reelection in 1996 for a second and final term, the increasingly ailing leader was preoccupied with the question of succession, looking for someone who ...

T he grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

Swedish economist Ander Äslund, Boris Yeltsin's former adviser when he held the Russian presidency, accused Vladimir Putin of having turned Russia into a kind of North Korea following the ...

“On one side of [the battlefield] are the crooks who have seized power in our country, and on the other are people who want ...

In his farewell Presidential address to the American people, George Washington gave the country some very excellent advice, ...

On New Year's Eve 1999 the Russian President went on TV and said he was leaving office. Tired and emotional, he apologised to the people for the state of the country. Show more On New Year's Eve ...

When the former Soviet republics declared independence in the early 1990s, Ukraine became the owner of the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.

Those who worry about America being drawn into a shooting war with Russia if we continue to support Ukraine might consider whether such a war would be more likely if we let Russia win, as Donald Trump ...

The government, led by President Boris Yeltsin at the time, wanted to privatize badly managed state-owned companies in an effort to move towards capitalism. The plan to achieve this was called ...

In 1999, then-president Boris Yeltsin dismissed his prime minister at the time, promoting former KGB officer Mr. Putin in his place.