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 ...

In his 2005 speech, Vladimir Putin’s statement that ‘the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical ...

This past New Year’s Eve marked 25 years since Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin, then prime minister, stepped into the position on an acting basis ...

A quarter of a century has now passed since Boris Yeltsin's ceding of power ... It is now a quarter of a century since Vladimir Putin ascended the throne of the Kremlin, the event that - according ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during ... succeeded by current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin died in 2007 at the age of 76.