As Vladimir Putin wages a bloody and unrelenting war in Ukraine, Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding examines Putin's unlikely path to the Russian presidency. From his humble beginnings in St Petersburg to his mysterious and...

This is Russia: the largest country on the planet by pure landmass. The country is the center of many controversies that have today made it a bit of a boogeyman in the international community.



It is enormous military...

Russian President Boris Yeltsin was given an effusive welcome in Beijing on Wednesday (24/4) as he began a three-day visit to China. A special ceremony was held inside the Hall of the Great People at Tiananmen Square early...

Yeltsin halts all military operations

Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced on Sunday (31/3)
that
all Russian military operations in the breakaway r
epublic of
Chechnya would end at...

English/Nat

Russia may be edging closer to pulling out of the NATO Partnership following Sunday night's NATO cruise missile attacks on the Bosnian Se
rbs.
The Duma recommended on Saturday to resume the...

Moscow, Russia Natsot Duration: 2.57"

The hottest items at Moscow's 9th International Book Fair wer
e not
the hamburgers at the refreshment stalls...nor even t
he...

HEADLINE: US, Russia poised to restart relationship

CAPTION: Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev have inherited the long and complicated US-Russia relationship. AP's former Moscow bureau chief Steve Hurst...

A long-awaited summit between ailing presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin opened around a dinner-table on Thursday (20/3), with little prospect of a deal on NATO's plan to expand eastwards into Europe but hopes...

Police Hunt for Clues over Boris Berezovsky Death

Russian President Boris Yeltsin said on Sunday (10/7) he was prepared to cooperate with a new post-Cold War regime that aims to withhold sensitive technology from extremist states. Clinton said he and...

English/Nat

It's being billed as the most important world summit since Yalta more than fifty years ago - and the message from the host city is clear - Helsinki is ready to take its...

Eng/French/Nat

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Lyons on to demonstrate against the G-7 summit, the forum for the world's wealthiest nat
ions.
But the French city was also...

President Boris Yeltsin underwent a successful seven-hour multiple heart bypass operation on Tuesday (5/11) and is set to make a full recovery, doctors and officials announced.

Before going under anaesthetic for the...

The former head of the Russian presidential council and close confident of Boris Yeltsin, Gennady Burbulis, said on Thursday (9/1) Yeltsin should step down from the presidency due to his continuing health...

Eng / Nat

President Bill Clinton has appealed directly to his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin for restraint in Chec
hnya.
In a letter written earlier this week, Clinton urged Yeltsin to forestall...

President Boris Yeltsin's stock dropped on Friday morning (28/6)

at the Moscow stock exchange, following rumours that the Ru
ssian
president
is unwell.
Exterior of Russian
stock exchange;
Interio
r of...

Demonstrations were held in various parts of the former Soviet

Union on Monday (7/11) to mark the 77th anniversary of
the
Bolshevik Re
volution.
In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, there were clashes...

After spending billions of dollars over the past three months to prop up Russia's weak currency, the government gave up on Monday (17/08) and let the ruble's value drop by up to 34 percent. President Boris Yeltsin...

English/Nat

The Russian market is taking a wait-and-see approach to the sacking of Russian security Tsar Alexander L
ebed.
Investors reacted calmly to President Boris Yeltsin's toppling of...

Brightly coloured floats and hundreds of Russian sailors paraded

through Red Square in Moscow on Sunday (5/5) to mark the
300th
anniversary of the Russian navy, founded by Peter th
e Great in
00.00 WS of...

Russian/Nat

Russian President Boris Yeltsin has fired his Defence Minister Igor Rodionov following a scathing attack on his failure to reform the mili
tary.
Rodionov...

Eng/Russian/Nat

When Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets his American counterpart, Bill Clinton tomorrow (Wednesday) the atmosphere is not expected to be w
arm.
The war in Chechnya,...

Eng/Russian/Nat

Russian President Boris Yeltsin is today (Thursday) finally expected to announce he's going to run for a second term of office - but the presidential race will...

Russian President Boris Yeltsin was admitted Wednesday (10/12) to a Moscow clinic suffering from a viral infection Wednesday and will remain there for 10-12 days, the Kremlin said, sparking fresh concern about his...