MOSCOW — In a final gesture of defiance toward the Soviet system that he had demolished, Boris Yeltsin was laid to rest yesterday after Russia’s first Orthodox state funeral for more than a century.

They came by the tens of thousands, some bearing posters depicting the jubilant face of Boris Yeltsin, others holding placards demanding the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev. By noon on a chilly Sunday, ...

Red Square was crowded with Sunday strollers when the little band of people sat down on the Lobnoye Mesto,* just outside the Kremlin. Inside, Soviet leaders were holding meetings with Czechoslovakia’s ...

Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who died yesterday at 76, led his people out of the bondage of communism but was never to see the promised land of a thriving market economy and a state ...

Nikolai Ryzhkov, right, with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989: two years later, he steered Gorbachev away from a too-radical transformation to a market economy, but the compromise proved disastrous - Wojtek ...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has declared today a national day of mourning in observance of the death of popular former president Boris Yeltsin. Mr Yeltsin, Russia's first-ever democratically ...

It's a day for patriots in Russia, where the country is celebrating Victory Day to commemorate the World War II defeat of Nazi Germany. A parade of troops, tanks and missile launchers made its way ...

Mr. Zygar is a Russian journalist and the author of a book about Russia in the 1990s. An elderly president isn’t sure whether he should run for a second term. His approval ratings are low, and there ...

Lyudmila Telen, a top official at Russia's Yeltsin Center, was fined 45,000 rubles ($560) for reposting an anti-war message on social media. The court ruled her post, shared after Russia's invasion of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's former President Boris Yeltsin was a hero for dismantling the Soviet Union but the democracy he bequeathed was dangerously fragile, Russian newspapers said on Tuesday.

Russia is clearly testing the NATO alliance with its drone attacks in Poland and on the border of Romania. Russia is pursuing interests that run directly counter to those of the United States, the ...