A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

When the Cold War ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, it greatly reduced the threat of global nuclear war.

Russia and Iran signed a mutual defense and security cooperation pact on Jan. 17 — just days before President Trump’s ...

Expectations for an era of heightened U.S.–Russian cooperation began to unravel in the mid-2000s. Indeed, future historians ...

December 31, 1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin took to the airwaves to make a surprise announcement, telling his fellow countrymen that he would step aside for his prime minister to take over ...

The mix of profits and politics that began under then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin gave way to crackdowns by President Vladimir Putin, who has his own favored oligarchs and pledged to let them keep ...

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, died 15 years ago today. He was 76. Still fresh in my memory is an image of Yeltsin on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. During a failed ...

(Andy Wong/AP) The year 2000 opened with Russian President Boris Yeltsin stepping down before his term ended. A Post editorial on Jan. 1, 2000, wondered whether his successor, Vladimir Putin ...

Anatoly Chubais, Russia’s former deputy prime minister and one of the country’s most powerful figures during the 1990s, reportedly entered an intensive-care unit within a European hospital on ...