Two of the most vivid images of the late 20th century focused on tanks. One picture caught a Chinese dissident standing, briefcase in hand, in front of a communist tank during the siege of Tiananmen ...

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 ...

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April 23, 2007 — -- Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who once stood atop a tank in Moscow and spoke defiantly against a conservative coup, has died, according to a Kremlin ...

MOSCOW -- Boris Yeltsin was a courageous fighter, an instinctive democrat who helped dismantle the vast totalitarian apparatus of the Soviet state and its monolithic Communist Party, freeing millions ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Yeltsin's sobbing widow stooped over his open coffin to kiss his face on Wednesday before the first president of independent Russia was lowered into the ground to the boom of ...