In this book, Satter tells the story of the apartment bombings and how Boris Yeltsin presided over the criminalization of Russia, why Vladimir Putin was chosen as his successor, and how Putin has ...

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State Duma deputy Nikolai Arefyev (CPRF) called for the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg to be closed so that such figures as Alisa Gorshenina, co—author of the Russophobic Pussy Riot clip, could not ...

Meanwhile, President Yeltsin suddenly appeared in the Kremlin and after an extraordinary meeting with Nikolai Bordiuzha, head of his Presidential Administration, the presidential press service ...

Swedish economist Ander Äslund, Boris Yeltsin's former adviser when he held the Russian presidency, accused Vladimir Putin of having turned Russia into a kind of North Korea following the ...

Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at the age of 76, oversaw the collapse of communist rule in Russia and its chaotic transformation into a market economy. Here are key dates in his political career: ...