The body of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin is to lie in state in Moscow ahead of a funeral on Wednesday The Kremlin said Yeltsin - the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: ...

Famous as the first freely-elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin stood by his country for better or worse – in politics as well as his favorite pastime, tennis. But last week, the world lost ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...