A watershed year for Russia’s ties with China shows the role of domestic politics in driving “great power relations.” The open ambitions of rising political star Bo Xilai were partly ...

Negative comments on Yeltsin’s role is noticeable among young people, for whom the first Russian president is "no more than a historical personality." MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Over the past ...

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 during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

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

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 ...

He was expelled from Russia after claiming that Putin and the FSB were behind the apartment bombings Satter: In the summer of 1999 the approval rating of former President Yeltsin was 2%.

The controversial program was administered through auctions, but only select bidders were invited to attend, usually at the discretion of President Boris Yeltsin's daughter. Potanin was among the ...