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

A revealing, damning and fascinating diplomatic memorandum, sent in 1994 from the US embassy in Moscow to the State ...

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 ...

Under the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, in the 1990s, a group of snake oil salesmen and scam artists swooped in to take advantage of the opening that "shock therapy" provided and gobbled ...

Advertisement The three PSR charges heard last season — two for Everton and one for Forest — resulted in a combined 12 points being deducted, the kind of shock therapy that was difficult to ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Minister of Defense of Germany Boris Pistorius, who came to Ukraine on his fourth visit. The Head of State thanked the Federal Republic of Germany for helping ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

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 ...

The Webster Food Town, once a Randall's Grocery visited by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, has recently shuttered. A large sign reading, "This location closed," could be seen on the ...

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 ...

Boris Johnson has branded Vladimir Putin a "f**king idiot" in a frank TV interview, telling the Russian leader his imperial ambitions are finished. The former British Prime Minister made the remarks ...