Two renowned Houston doctors who continued to consult on treatment for Boris Yeltsin, long after they helped save his life 11 years ago, said they were saddened to hear of the Russian's death Monday.

MOSCOW (AP) - Former President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died Monday. He was 76. Kremlin ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

Over the course of his tumultuous stewardship as leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin suffered the ultimate comedown: from hero of his time to the object of public derision. At the outset, there was the ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin led the political elite Wednesday in paying respects to Boris Yeltsin on the first anniversary of his death, unveiling a patriotic monument to the man who brought ...

Russia bade a solemn farewell Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin, its first post-Soviet president, with a sonorous funeral under the gilded arches of a cathedral near the Kremlin and burial in a leafy ...

“The end crowns all,” William Shakespeare once wrote. On the face of it, Boris Yeltsin’s end was fabulous: Some 20,000 ordinary people, most leading Russian dignitaries, many world leaders and senior ...

GROZNY, Russia, April 24 (Reuters) - As Russia prepared for a day of national mourning for Boris Yeltsin, residents of the Chechen capital of Grozny had no forgiveness or sorrow for the president who ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin and Maria Sharapova brought Russia tennis glory but it was keen player and avid fan Boris Yeltsin who helped to make the sport popular nationwide.

Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president, died today in Moscow. There is an avalanche of responses to his death in the Russian blogosphere, ranging from “rest in peace” to “be damned.” Below is a tiny ...

While the previous post reflected some of what Russian bloggers’ thought of Boris Yeltsin's life and death, this one deals with the reactions of predominantly non-Russian observers, blogging in ...