However, Mr Clinton took care to not look like he was laughing at him, to suggest they were both in on the joke. Getty Images Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin at the press conference Other public ...

It was one of the most iconic images of 1994, taoiseach Albert Reynolds and senior ministers left on the red carpet at Shannon Airport waiting in vain for Russian president Boris Yeltsin to emerge ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

I was working as a producer in the BBC's Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia's President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down. His decision to resign took everyone by surprise ...

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, died 15 years ago today. He was 76. Still fresh in my memory is an image of Yeltsin on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. During a failed ...

The former officer of the KGB - the Soviet security service - was handpicked by President Boris Yeltsin and his inner circle to lead Russia into the 21st Century. But why Mr Putin? Valentin ...

Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s infamous no-show at Shannon Airport was a big news story in 1994 and newly released archive files shed much new light on the background to the incident.

Irish officials believed the Russian ambassador to Ireland, Nikolai Kozyrev, was “exquisitely embarrassed” by the failure of his president, Boris Yeltsin, to emerge from a plane to meet the ...

Negative comments on Yeltsin’s role is noticeable among young people, for whom the first Russian president is "no more than a historical personality." MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Over the past ...