Exiled Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan tell Newsweek about Vladimir Putin's crackdown and their book ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: "Take care of Russia." Now, 25 years later, the question ...

By abolishing the liberal principles of democracy and equality of all citizens before the law that the first president Boris ...

Boris Yeltsin stands with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2000 (Photo: Itar Tass) Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system launchers roll during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9 ...

On August 9, 1999, President Boris Yeltsin picked the 47-year-old former KGB officer Vladimir Putin as prime minister. Twenty-five years on, Putin still rules Russia, now in his fifth presidential ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he constantly considers potential successors and confirmed he has a list of ... Putin himself was chosen as former President Boris Yeltsin's successor in 1999.

Moscow said it will announce the next round of direct talks with Ukraine "soon", contingent on Kyiv removing "discriminatory laws" in its latest propaganda move, coming after peace talks in ...

Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, took over the presidency from Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999 and served as president till 2008, then as prime minister until 2012, and then again as ...

President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that ... Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was handed the presidency on the last day of 1999 by an ailing Boris Yeltsin, ...