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 ...

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 ...

The then-Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin’s media operation had already begun to portray the ex-KGB operative in stark contrast to the moribund Yeltsin as an action-man.That same year the ...

On August 9, 1999, President Boris Yeltsin picked the 47-year-old former KGB officer Vladimir Putin as prime minister. Twenty-five years on, Putin still rules Russia, now in his fifth presidential ...

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

Following the G7 summit in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new round of sanctions targeting Russian individuals and entities, as well as more than 200 vessels from the so-called “shadow ...

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.

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 ...