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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Russia's justice ministry said on Friday it had designated Andrei Kozyrev, the country's first post-Soviet foreign minister who later became a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, as a ...

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.

To attack them, Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin prime minister and then resigned in return for pardons for him and his family.