Exiled Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan tell Newsweek about Vladimir Putin's crackdown and their book ...

Why People Are Comparing Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin 30 Years Later and Why They’re Wrong New revelations about Yeltsin’s shelling of Russia’s Duma are being completely misunderstood.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want to stay in power beyond the end of his current term and will have stepped down by 2024, the chief of staff to Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin ...

Boris Yeltsin Quietly Challenges Putin. By Masha Gessen. December 9, 2015. Save this story. Save this story. Tatyana Yumasheva, the daughter of the first Russian President , Boris Yeltsin ...

Visitors to the Boris Yeltsin Museum start their tour with a small mockup of the hall where, on Oct. 21, 1987, the president of what was then the Russian Socialist Republic gave a shocking speech ...

Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin who helped Vladimir Putin come to power, has quit his role as a Kremlin adviser, two people familiar with Yumashev's ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: "Take care of Russia." Now, 25 years later, the question ...

Did Yeltsin’s tenure of corruption and cronyism give rise to Putin? Or did the Russian president offer a glimpse of liberal democracy? Thirty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mick ...

Aksyonenko, at one time a deputy prime minister in President Boris Yeltsin's cabinet, and a one-time candidate to become Yeltsin's heir apparent, was on his way out since his political godfather ...

He carried out a total of 23 meetings with Boris Yeltsin, Russia's president from 1991 to 1999, and Vladimir Putin, its current president, compared to a total of 26 meetings between Russian and ...