The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the ...

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...

Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR. Personal Birth date: March 2, 1931 Death date: August 30, 2022 Birth place: Privolnoye, Russia, Soviet Union Birth name: ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, ...

MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday that Europe still misunderstands Russia nearly two decades after the Soviet collapse, and he dismissed as nonsense portrayals of his country as an aggressive ...

VILNIUS – Robertas Povilaitis, the son of a man killed during the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania in January 1991, said on Tuesday he regretted that prosecutors never opened a criminal case against ...

MOSCOW -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been hospitalized in Moscow, Russian state-run media reports. The 83-year-old said in a radio interview that his health is deteriorating but he's ...

What do Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Charles Steele and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev have in common? Suggested Reading Comparing 2020, a Trash Year Black Folks, to ...