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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boris Berezovsky, an influential figure within Yeltsin’s inner circle, had known Putin since the early 1990s and, impressed by him, even offered to take him skiing in the Swiss Alps. (The future ...

Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, has led Russia as either president or prime minister since 1999. He first assumed the presidency on the final day of that year, taking over from 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 ...