The Latest Breaking News from Boris Yeltsin

Vladimir Putin has met five US presidents over 25 years. But jazz and fishing have given way to threats and tension.

From US President Gerald Ford's disastrous fall, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin's no-show, powerful political figures have had trouble getting on and off planes

No one who watched Alexei Navalny’s meteoric trajectory, from civic activist to opposition leader to the world’s most famous political prisoner, could avoid the question: how will this extraordinary saga end? Was Navalny destined to become Russia’s Nelson Mandela, a redemptive leader who guided his people from oppression to the…

How the action unfolded on day two as ParalympicsGB won four gold medals, three silver and two bronze

The former president has persisted with his signature dance move at campaign rallies – what does it all mean?

Academic who played a major role in highlighting the repression of dissidents in the Soviet Union and in the founding of Index on Censorship

Historically, crises have often erupted in late summer, which is why this week’s mini crash set alarms ringing

The American historian and expert on Russia has written a definitive study of the flamboyant life and mysterious death of the oligarch, a confidant of Yeltsin and a man to whom Putin was once indebted

His brutal, repressive regime is good at belated investigation and torture, but lacks the capability to stop attacks happening, says Russian author Andrei Soldatov