Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he thought Vladimir Putin would die soon - but who would replace him at the end of his reign?

They amassed vast fortunes by buying up the former Soviet Union's state assets in privatizations organized by then-president Boris Yeltsin in ... more than half of Russia's economy.

In what was largely a formality, Vladimir Putin was confirmed in office in the Russian presidential elections with 52.9% of ...

Russian President Boris Yeltsin drinks champagne during a meeting with the media at the Kremlin in April 1999. (AP Photo/File) Dictatorship depends on mythological thinking that worships heroes and ...

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 ...

Columbia University professor and MSU graduate school alum Peter Clement spoke to MSU students and staff about Putin and his ...

Otherwise, Trump risks fumbling Europe to Russia, just as Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested to President Bill Clinton in 1999: “Just give Europe to Russia, because Russia is in Europe ...

a bit enamored — first with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and then with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In retrospect, it is unclear which was more mystifying: thinking that Russia would ...

In the beginning, Putin was an accidental leader. After Russia’s 1998 financial crash, its president, Boris Yeltsin, and the oligarchs around him scrambled to find a viable candidate to run ...

He is poised to continue this game of pretending to seek peace while waging war for months. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Putin wins first presidential term; Saudi King Faisal assassinated; Italian fascists set up postwar trade union; Mussolini ...