TASS/. The first President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin did not "hand over" presidential power to Vladimir Putin, Putin himself said during the Direct Line Wednesday, underscoring that ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday is confident that Russia will be developing and grow strong as first president Boris Yeltsin wanted. "I remember Yeltsin’s words known ...

Four months later, Yeltsin named this FSS chief the prime minister of Russia. And that was Vladimir Putin, until then a political nobody. “He was so cool and collected, I was wary of him at ...