When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader credited with ending the Cold War and bringing about the collapse of the USSR, will be laid to rest on Saturday, after having died Tuesday at the age of 91.

They killed in Budapest in 1956. They killed in Prague in 1968. Mikhail Gorbachev refused to follow suit. He had almost 400,000 troops in Germany, as Rice said. They did not stir. They were not ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

Gorbachev died at the Central Clinical Hospital on August 30 MOSCOW, August 31. /TASS/. Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the last Soviet president, will be buried at Moscow’s Novo-Dyevitchiye ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as leader of the USSR. He was one of a new generation of well-educated ...

In show of ambivalence, Putin pays tribute to Gorbachev but won’t attend his funeral Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev but will not ...