The authoritative French daily Le Monde was forced to admit yesterday that it had fallen hook, line and sinker for un gros poisson d'avril - a monumental April fool - in publishing what purported to ...

Beginning in 1924, prominent guests of the publisher autographed leather-bound books during their visits to The Times’s headquarters. By David W. Dunlap A newly declassified analysis argued against ...

When the future looks back to Vladimir Putin’s murder-war in Ukraine, what will it see? Russia’s unlawful invasion unleashed ...

Russia's former president, Boris Yeltsin, has died. We remember him as the man who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union. You might recall visiting from 1991, communist hardliners had just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left, members of the military loyal to Yeltsin sit on a tank in 1993 in Moscow in front of the blackened parliament building ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace ...

Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia who died yesterday at 76, led his people out of the bondage of communism but was never to see the promised land of a thriving market economy and a state ...

This Week in History: From missing monks to Soviet standoffs - Explore how major events between 23 and 29 March were captured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Reuters) -Russia's justice ministry has started investigating a museum dedicated to the late president Boris Yeltsin for possible ...

The former head of the administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Sergei Filatov, has died at the age of 87. Filatov died on August 25, his daughter told the Petersburg Bulletin. Filatov ...