Yeltsin belonged neither to the Soviet Union nor to the West.

For me, as for all Russians, these were the toughest days. There are no words to describe my compassion for the people who"ve lost their children in the Beslan tragedy. I believe every adult in Russia feels partially responsible for what"s happened. We have failed at protecting our children, at guarding them... This is our common fault and our common grief.

At no time in the last eight years has the "de-Bolshevization of Russia"--which Boris Yeltsin embraced as his paramount goal in September 1991--seemed so secure.

The next few weeks promise to be as fateful an occasion as any in Russian history for the reformers to prove that they know whattodo.

What are we to make of Boris Yeltsin,the man who led post-Soviet Russia in its first nine years?

Thank you, Madam Chairman.Among the very top priorities of U.S. foreign and security policies, I doubt there are many – if any – objectives more important than a free, democratic, stable, and prosperous Russia, at peace, in the long last, with its own people, its neighbors and the...

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Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected leader in the federation’s thousand-year history, died on April 23, 2007. During his presidency, Yeltsin institutionalized the vital liberties that Mikhail Gorbachev had granted only provisionally and often by default: freedom from government censorship of speech and of the press; free elections; freedom of...