In what was largely a formality, Vladimir Putin was confirmed in office in the Russian presidential elections with 52.9% of ...
Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, died 15 years ago today. He was 76. Still fresh in my memory is an image of Yeltsin on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. During a failed ...
When Vladimir Putin launched his bid to be elected as Russia’s president in 2000, he had already been in the role for a month and a half. His predecessor Boris Yeltsin had stepped down on 31 ...
a ex-banker and close associate of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin. However in another message he insists with the reward but without the picture of Putin. “As an ethnic Russian it is my ...
March 26, 2000, Vladimir Putin won the Russian presidential election, making him the official successor of Boris Yeltsin, who had ...
Putin wins first presidential term; Saudi King Faisal assassinated; Italian fascists set up postwar trade union; Mussolini ...
When Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned from office ... TASS/dpa/picture alliance In the course of these 25 years, the Russian president has transformed his country into the "strongest ...