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

As the president of Russia, the largest nation among the 15 republics constituting the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin denounced the conservatives’ move as a coup, and said that Gorbachev was placed ...

When he came across the grocery store’s vast and varied selection of fresh fish, Yeltsin remarked, according to Asin, "Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev." ...

Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia. Most people born in the 1980s and earlier remember that momentous day - when a communist ...

Russia's top diplomat targets domestic, international skeptics as Kremlin seeks to create false equivalencies, portray Ukraine as extremist ...

Yeltsin was most struck by the store's stark comparison to a typical Russian grocery store at the time. "Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,'' Yeltsin said as he ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb, ...

It included a defeat in his power struggle with Mikhail Gorbachev, who was born in the same year. The dissolution of the Soviet Union cannot be discussed without the part played by “Yeltsin the ...

Yet 30 years ago this week, the then Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, together with the leaders ... the policy that the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, had intended should reinvigorate the ...