The body of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin is to lie in state in Moscow ahead of a funeral on Wednesday The Kremlin said Yeltsin - the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet ...

Famous as the first freely-elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin stood by his country for better or worse – in politics as well as his favorite pastime, tennis. But last week, the world lost ...

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 ...