who signed that historic document alongside Boris Yeltsin. Photo: the leader of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, the leader of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich and the leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin at ...

Famous as the first freely-elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin stood by his country ... to shake hands with Maria Sharapova and get her autograph on his hat? Shamil Tarpishchev, the man ...

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 ...