Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building Yeltsin ordered shelled; right, Russian President Vladimir Putin with ...
MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin is best remembered for what may have been his finest hour. He scrambled atop a tank outside the Russian parliament building on Aug. 19, 1991, the day after then-President ...
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, was, besides much else, a prolific writer, penning three memoirs in his lifetime. The books are, at times, candid and revealing. Here ...
FILE - Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian Parliament building in Moscow, Russia on Monday, Aug. 19, 1991. The Soviet prime ...