Russia's justice ministry said on Friday it had designated Andrei Kozyrev, the country's first post-Soviet foreign minister who later became a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, as a "foreign ...

America’s billionaires should take note. When extreme wealth combines forces with extreme power, the former can profit ...

The three and a half minute seasonal message was delivered on Tuesday, exactly 25 years since Putin took over from predecessor Boris Yeltsin, who resigned unexpectedly on the last day of 1999.

When Boris Yeltsin suddenly resigned as Russia’s first ... The then-Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin’s media operation had already begun to portray the ex-KGB operative in stark contrast ...

December 31, 1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin took to the airwaves to make ... a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. This New Year’s Eve, when Putin addresses Russians, he will be ...

Vladimir Putin is pulling no punches as he brands Russia's first post-Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, as a "foreign agent" over his criticism of Ukraine war.

Could Putin Be Sick with Some Sort of Disease ... his initiatives brought about an economic downturn rather than prosperity. Boris Yeltsin crashed the Soviet system and became the first president ...

In the 1990s, when Russia flirted with democracy under Boris Yeltsin, 70 percent of the population thought America was a friend and 15 percent a foe. Under Putin, those numbers have flipped.

The question of whether Putin believes he managed to save Russia, as Boris Yeltsin asked him when transferring power in 1999, was posed by BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg. Rosenberg listed ...

Russia Designates Yeltsin-Era Foreign Minister Turned Putin Critic a 'Foreign Agent ... served as Russian foreign minister under then President Boris Yeltsin after the 1991 collapse of the ...