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 ...

Russian President Boris Yeltsin officially resigned on Dec. 31, 1999, anointing Vladimir Putin, then prime minister, as his successor. Partially due to his hardline stance against terrorism and ...

When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a man with whom Washington could do business. President Bill Clinton ...

The Soviet Union's collapse and America's current decline have remarkable similarities. The Soviet Union failed because it marginalized the entrepren ...

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia ... Yeltsin named this FSS chief the prime minister of Russia. And that was Vladimir Putin, until then a political nobody. “He was so cool and ...

A quarter of a century has now passed since Boris Yeltsin's ceding of power ... It is now a quarter of a century since Vladimir Putin ascended the throne of the Kremlin, the event that - according ...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday gave the green light to investment bank Goldman Sachs to offload its ...

As we enter a new year widely expected to be turbulent, Russia marks an anniversary some associate with stability and others with calamity — 25 years of Vladimir Putin’s hold on the reins of ...

Speaking to the Baltic news website Delfi, the former UK PM said: “What Putin is doing is archaic, and barbaric. “And he needs to understand that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – none of these ...

This past New Year’s Eve marked 25 years since Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin, then prime minister, stepped into the position on an acting basis ...

Vladimir Putin is the current president of Russia ... In 1999, then-president Boris Yeltsin dismissed his prime minister at the time, promoting former KGB officer Mr. Putin in his place.