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 ...

Russia’s oil exports fund the Kremlin’s splurge on defence and trickle into ordinary Russians’ pocketbooks. The technocrats ...

Boris Yeltsin stands with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2000 (Photo: Itar Tass) Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system launchers roll during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9 ...

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

Canada has announced a new round of sanctions targeting Russian individuals, companies, and vessels that help the Kremlin skirt oil restrictions, according to the official Canadian government website.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he constantly considers potential successors and confirmed he has a list of ... Putin himself was chosen as former President Boris Yeltsin's successor in 1999.

Moscow said it will announce the next round of direct talks with Ukraine "soon", contingent on Kyiv removing "discriminatory laws" in its latest propaganda move, coming after peace talks in ...

President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that ... Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was handed the presidency on the last day of 1999 by an ailing Boris Yeltsin, ...

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 ...