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

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 ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, formally handed over power to a hand-picked successor. “Take care of Russia,” was Yeltsin’s ...

By abolishing the liberal principles of democracy and equality of all citizens before the law that the first president Boris ...

While paying lip service to freedom and democracy, Putin quickly began to clamp down on the Russian media — which, for all the flaws of the Yeltsin era, had enjoyed unprecedented freedom in the ...

Kozyrev, who is 74 and lives in the United States, served as Russian foreign minister under then President Boris Yeltsin after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union at a time when a liberalising ...

President Trump’s views of the G-7 summit as an economic forum rather than a beacon of democracy and his failure to understand the importance of international law and the sovereignty of ...

Putin destroyed it. With Boris Nemtsov, a different Russia was possible. February 27, 2025. ... After President Boris Yeltsin’s controversial reelection in 1996 for a second and final term, ...

Putin himself was chosen as former President Boris Yeltsin's successor in 1999. By 2025, Putin's regime is widely characterized as authoritarian with growing totalitarian features.