MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Boris Yeltsin, after becoming Russia's president ... A California resident captured video of a mother bear giving her cub a swimming lesson in a backyard pool.

The edifice was blown up by dictator Josef Stalin and the site was used as a swimming pool until ... "I feel sorry for Boris Nikolayevich [Yeltsin] because I have always liked him as a human ...

When Boris Yeltsin came to town, ’twas a famous occasion. The Great Man was drunk. At least, so we all thought at the Johns Hopkins breakfast meeting. I shook Mr. Yeltsin’s hand in a reception ...

This column was written by Nikolas K. Gvosdev. Boris Yeltsin is a lot like Ulysses S. Grant, and I think history will treat him in the same way as his American predecessor. Both men were heroes ...

Boris Yeltsin, the feisty, glowering ex-Communist leader whose dramatic feud with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev led to the collapse of the USSR and vaulted him into the presidency of a ...

Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, spent his 70th birthday in the hospital on Thursday, with a parade of visitors including his successor Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin, who was hospitalized ...

Boris Yeltsin will be indelibly linked to the creation of democracy in Russia. By facing down the tanks outside the Russian Parliament, he showed that popular opinion could conquer authoritarianism.