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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin, ... Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, took over the presidency from Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999 and served as president till 2008, ...

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, ...