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 ...

TASS/. The first and only President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev created a unique model of defusing tensions between the East and the West, which gave hope for a better future, and he is not to ...

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 ...

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 ...

TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev has described the moment he stepped down as the head of state as "dark days" for himself, for the Soviet Union and for Russia.

MOSCOW, August 31. /TASS/. The lying-in-state ceremony for the first and only President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, who died aged 92 Tuesday, will take place on Saturday, September 3 ...