The body of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin is to lie in state in Moscow ahead of a funeral on Wednesday The Kremlin said Yeltsin - the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet ...

Famous as the first freely-elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin stood by his country for better or worse – in politics as well as his favorite pastime, tennis. But last week, the world lost ...

A quarter of a century has now passed since Boris Yeltsin's ceding of power ... a future of political change and renewal, whatever the tsar's personal fate. Writer Denis Dragunsky says that ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: "Take care of Russia." Now, 25 years later, the question ...

I was working as a producer in the BBC's Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia's President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down. His decision to resign took everyone by surprise ...