Recent arrests and prosecutions pile on the pressure as authorities cement a cultural agenda centred on promoting ...

Pensioners were protesting in the streets. Putin’s predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, had become a walking punch line. Russia was still reeling from the humiliation of losing the Cold War and the ...

Putin, 72, Says the Succession Is Always on His Mind MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, the longest serving Kremlin chief since Josef Stalin, said in remarks aired on Sunday that ...

Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was handed the presidency on the last day of 1999 Boris Yeltsin, served as president from 1999 to 2008, then as prime minister until 2012, and then again ...

Jen Wineman adds, "The World Still Needs You, Boris Yeltsin!" is a theatrical fever dream that somehow manages to be laugh-out-loud funny and deeply human all at once. I'm thrilled to bring this ...

Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was handed the presidency on the last day of 1999 by an ailing Boris Yeltsin, is the longest serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, who ruled for 29 ...

Was that just American chauvinism? Hardly. Just a few months earlier, Boris Yeltsin — then newly elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and a member of the Communist Party — had visited ...