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

T he grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...