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 ...

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

A staunch Kremlin critic described as "Vladimir Putin's number one enemy" has claimed that the Russian President has stolen ...

Nevertheless, Putin’s New Year’s message remained upbeat. He looked ahead to the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Soviet ...

The Globe and Mail spoke to Terence McKenna, the documentary’s narrator and writer, about the unlearned lessons of Putin’s ...

Moscow, Russia - President Vladimir Putin praised his country's achievements in a New ... The address, delivered exactly 25 years since he took over from predecessor Boris Yeltsin, did not explicitly ...

December 31, 1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin took to the airwaves ... a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. This New Year’s Eve, when Putin addresses Russians, he will be marking ...

President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year address that ... exactly 25 years since Putin took over from predecessor Boris Yeltsin, who resigned unexpectedly on the last day of 1999.

"Boris Yeltsin always said he would see out his ... It was the start of my career as a reporter. And the start of Vladimir Putin's as Russia's leader. Following Yeltsin's resignation, in ...

As we enter a new year widely expected to be turbulent, Russia marks an anniversary some associate with stability and others with calamity — 25 years of Vladimir Putin’s hold on the reins of ...

Twenty five years ago today, a somewhat undemonstrative technocrat became the acting president of Russia. In a surprise announcement, Boris Yeltsin handed over to Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer ...