From 1991 to 1999, Yeltsin’s eight-year rule was a rollercoaster of historic gains for freedom and crushing economic and ...

Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who died yesterday at 76, led his people out of the bondage of communism but was never to see the promised land of a thriving market economy and a state ...

MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin is best remembered for what may have been his finest hour. He scrambled atop a tank outside the Russian parliament building on Aug. 19, 1991, the day after then-President ...

Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building Yeltsin ordered shelled; right, Russian President Vladimir Putin with ...

Two of the most vivid images of the late 20th century focused on tanks. One picture caught a Chinese dissident standing, briefcase in hand, in front of a communist tank during the siege of Tiananmen ...

April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...

(Reuters) - The funeral of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin was held in Moscow on Wednesday. Here is an outline of his political career. 1985 - New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev brings Yeltsin ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Yeltsin's sobbing widow stooped over his open coffin to kiss his face on Wednesday before the first president of independent Russia was lowered into the ground to the boom of ...