In April 1999, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, in a secret decree, ordered the development of thousands of short-range, low-yield, “battlefield” nuclear weapons that Russia could use to win a nuclear conflict.

When the Soviet Union was petering out in 1989, Boris Yeltsin toured a Randalls in Houston, resulting in the famous pictures of the wide-eyed future Russian president perusing the wide variety of food available to average people living under capitalism

As Russia’s own diplomats, including Evgeniy Primakov, admitted, Moscow had neglected its former allies and nothing, despite verbal assurances, was put into writing to foreclose NATO accepting new members after 1991, which mercurial President Boris Yeltsin

After taking over from Boris Yeltsin in 1999, Mr. Putin visited Pyongyang in July 2000 for a meeting with Kim Jong Il, the father of Kim Jong Un. The Russian president accepted Mr. Kim’s invite when they met in Russia for a summit in September, Mr.

Scenario One: A reformist figure akin to Russia’s Boris Yeltsin could emerge, break away from the CCP, and lead China toward democratic transformation. This outcome is an ideal scenario.

Boris Yeltsin, who later became the first president of the Russian Federation, became a serious political force only after breaking with the Communist Party and returning as an outsider willing to challenge the system’s foundations, Heng stated.

NATO appeared to have lost its raison d'être in the 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia, under Boris Yeltsin, warmed to Western overtures.

In December 1999, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement on disputed border territory in Beijing.

President Bill Clinton, (L), Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, (C), and Russian President Boris Yeltsin pose together at the Mantyniemi presidential residence on the outskirts of Helsinki on March 21, 1997.

One was a notorious massacre in 1989 in Tiananmen Square, and one in 1991, when the Soviet troops withdrew, and a beaming Boris Yeltsin climbed onto a tank to announce his arrival in post-Soviet Russia. It baffles me how Mr.

The Russian leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were treated with uniform respect, and for a time Russia was invited to join the G7, making it the G8.

Putin, 71, was first appointed Russia’s acting president by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999. Russia’s first post-Soviet leader, Mr. Yeltsin served as president from 1991 to 1999, when he appointed Mr. Putin as his successor. In 2000, Mr.

President Bill Clinton (R) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin greet each other in the Green room at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 13, 1994.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin died in 2007 aged 76. Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) shakes hands with Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk during his visit to Yalta, Ukraine, on Aug. 3, 1992.

Putin, 71, was first appointed acting president by Boris Yeltsin on the final day of 1999. Mr. Yeltsin, the country’s first post-Soviet leader, served as Russia’s president from 1991 to 1999, when he appointed Mr. Putin as his successor.

West and Russia Forced Ukraine to Forfeit Nuclear Deterrent In January 1994, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Clinton signed a tripartite agreement with then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, to eliminate the

Russia was admitted to the Council of Europe, which was founded after World War Two to promote human rights and democracy in Europe, under President Boris Yeltsin in 1996.

Putin, 71, was first appointed Russia’s acting president by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999. Mr. Yeltsin, the country’s first post-Soviet leader, served as Russia’s president from 1991 to 1999, when he appointed Mr. Putin as his successor.

Putin, 71, was first appointed acting president by Boris Yeltsin on the final day of 1999. Mr. Yeltsin, the country’s first post-Soviet leader, served as Russia’s president from 1991 to 1999, when he appointed Mr. Putin as his successor.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin toast each other after the signing of border agreements between the two countries, in Beijing on Dec. 9, 1999.

However, the coup failed thanks to forces led by Russian president Boris Yeltsin.

What Else Was Going On In the World Anti-globalization protesters pressured the World Trade Organization to cancel the opening ceremonies of its Seattle meeting, and Russian President Boris Yeltsin was preparing his year-end resignation resulting in Vladimir

Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin never unambiguously accepted the legitimacy of all of these seceded states.

Besides Putin, Abramovich had close ties to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Walters has interviewed an extensive list of world leaders, including India's Indira Gandhi, Egypt's Anwar Al Sadat, Israel's Menachem Begin, the Shah of Iran, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Russia's Boris Yeltsin

In 1993, Bush and new Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed the START II agreement. It brought about Reagan’s once supposedly preposterous request of decreasing the countries’ nuclear weapons by half.

Putin, a KGB officer in the Cold War, came to power after being named acting president in December 1999 by his ailing predecessor Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet president. By Vladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn

Russia in 1998 defaulted on $40 billion in domestic debt and devalued the rouble under President Boris Yeltsin because it was effectively bankrupt after the Asian debt crisis and falling oil prices shook confidence in its short-term rouble debt.

I was on a congressional delegation visiting Moscow when Boris Yeltsin was president and the West had great hopes for a more open, democratic Russia. I went to see the then-vice president, who was an Air Force general, in his office.

Their behavior in the past two decades closely parallels Russia in the 1990s, when under Boris Yeltsin, a handful of oligarchs looted and sold off the country’s resources to enrich themselves while ordinary Russian people were plunged into chaos and poverty