As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's ...

When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a man with whom Washington could do business. President Bill Clinton ...

But when Vladimir Putin was named as successor to the drunken president Boris Yeltsin a quarter of a century ago, on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he was a virtual unknown outside Russian politics.

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia ... Yeltsin named this FSS chief the prime minister of Russia. And that was Vladimir Putin, until then a political nobody. “He was so cool and ...

A staunch Kremlin critic described as "Vladimir Putin's number ... According to him, when Putin was named as successor to Boris Yeltsin in 1999, he was virtually unknown outside of Russian ...

The Soviet Union's collapse and America's current decline have remarkable similarities. The Soviet Union failed because it marginalized the entrepren ...

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 result, simply called Putin. “The audience ... and fights back – cut to an adult Vladimir performing a judo throw. He proceeds to exhort Boris Yeltsin, his predecessor as president ...

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.

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 ...