It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

But unlike an aristocracy, an oligarchy is more closely tied to wealth than nobility and family lineage. The philosopher Aristotle ... and politics that began under then-Russian President Boris ...

Putin has long viewed nostalgia as a powerful means of reassuring — and subduing — the public. Putin revived the Soviet anthem and restored the Red Army flag as the official banner of the military.

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia ... Born into a poor farming family in Ural in 1931, his political career was turbulent. It included a defeat in his power struggle with Mikhail ...

Suffice it to remember, for now, that I am a naïve man, always have been; and so, at the age of 26, having studied their ...

But unlike an aristocracy, an oligarchy is more closely tied to wealth than nobility and family lineage ... began under then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin gave way to crackdowns by President ...

It also played host to a colorful visit in the 1990s by heavy-drinking Russian president Boris Yeltsin who, according to Bill ...