In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, protests and unrest continued continued across Europe, and the Soviet Union was having increasing trouble holding its sphere of influence together. Today you'll learn about the labor strikes of...

SciShow News starts the new year off with unusual animal news, including a crisis for the iconic monarch butterfly, and new research into what makes bowhead whales the longest-living mammals on Earth.

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...

This clip examines the Cold War Era and the end of the Soviet Union.

President Bush and President Yeltsin announce an agreement by which the United States and Russia reduce their nuclear warheads / George Bush states, 'The Cold War Days Are Over'. George Bush, 'The Cold War Days Are Over' on June 16, 1992...

This Week In History 6/7 - 6/13 (Footage by Getty Images)

President Clinton poses with world leaders at the G8 summit in Denver for pictures.

President Clinton and many other world leaders meet at the G8 Summit.

President Clinton greets his fellow world leaders at the G8 Summit in Denver.

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Dominating the opinion polls at the outset of Russia's election campaign, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov is now looking a little...

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The United States welcomed on Tuesday the developments in the Kremlin, where Russian President Boris Yeltsin appeared to be fully back in con
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Following through on promises to shake up a...

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President Boris Yeltsin has banned all advertising of liquor, tobacco, and unregistered healers in the Russian media. Yeltsin's decree, issued by his press-office...

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Twenty years ago on Friday Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin then a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics (Footage by AFPTV...

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There's little more than 24 hours before the polls open and Boris Yeltsin is counting like never before on the support of those who have grown up under...

Russian electoral officials are putting the final touches on preparations for Wednesday's (3/7) second and final round of voting in Russia's presidential elections. Polling booths have been set up and ballot boxes...

Alexander Skorokhod, once a civil construction engineer, sometimes wakes up unsure of who he really is -- a modest provincial grandfather or Russia's President Boris Yeltsin. Years of performing and making his living from...

HEADLINE: Boris Yeltsin dead at 76<br/>
CAPTION: Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 76.<br/> (April 23)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]

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With the prospect of military conflict over U-N arms inspections looming ever closer, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was given a letter on Wednesday from Russian President Boris Yeltsin in an attempt to...

Russian voters expressed their frustration at President Yeltsin's reforms with a massive swing to the communists in Sunday's (17/12)

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CLEAN : Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead: official

Twenty years ago on Friday Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin then a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics (Footage by AFPTV...

At the restaurant Chez Yvonne in Strasbourg where Jacques Chirac shared dinners with Gerhard Schröder Helmut Khol and Boris Yeltsin the former president is remembered as a warm man (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)