It was one of the most iconic images of 1994, taoiseach Albert Reynolds and senior ministers left on the red carpet at Shannon Airport waiting in vain for Russian president Boris Yeltsin to emerge ...

Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s infamous no-show at Shannon Airport was a big news story in 1994 and newly released archive files shed much new light on the background to the incident.

Famous as the first freely-elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin ... biggest fans. Yeltsin died of heart failure in Moscow at the age of 76. Yeltsin’s beaming smile and white mane were a ...

Irish officials believed the Russian ambassador to Ireland, Nikolai Kozyrev, was “exquisitely embarrassed” by the failure of his president, Boris Yeltsin, to emerge from a plane to meet the ...

On December 19, a conference was held in Madrid, with Boris Cimorra, a Spanish writer and journalist born in Moscow, as the ...

25 years ago: Yeltsin makes nuclear threat ... also known as the Rhodesian Bush War. The white supremacist Rhodesian government made an agreement with the black nationalist organizations ...