A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

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 ...

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 ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited ... led to the fall of communism in Russia. On September 16, 1989, Yeltsin, who had just been elected to the Supreme ...

The modest ceremony contrasted with a lavish 2007 state funeral given to Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet leader who anointed Putin as his preferred successor and set the stage for him to ...

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

Boris Berezovsky, who had helped make Yeltsin and was even involved in picking Putin and had the biggest television station, [was] forced out. And then in 2003, [Putin] had a big roundtable with ...

A quarter of a century has now passed since Boris Yeltsin's ceding of power. No one then thought that the peaceful and flourishing Russia that celebrated Moscow's 850th anniversary in 1997 would ...