served as Russian foreign minister under then President Boris Yeltsin after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union at a time when a liberalising Russia maintained warm relations with Western countries.

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.

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.

Russia’s Justice Ministry added former chief diplomat Andrei Kozyrev to the country’s “foreign agent” registry. Kozyrev was the head of Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry from 1990 to 1996, serving ...

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 ...

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In 1992, the USS Baton Rouge collided with the Russian submarine B-276 Kostroma near Severomorsk, Russia, despite the Cold ...

Trump accused Zelensky of harming peace talks by not recognising Russian control of Crimea - a point of contention in ...

The US president says the strikes, which killed at least eight people, were "not necessary, and very bad timing".