MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...
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The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...
The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...
(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... more open to acknowledging where communism had fallen short in the Soviet Union. But his rise was at first inauspicious for ...
It is with a great sense of pain that we can say that it was after this massacre that the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded ...
Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered on Wednesday. The last leader of the Soviet Union died Tuesday at 91, and his passing brought sharply different reactions. Nick Schifrin reports.
Soviet Russia opened up in 1988, but its freedom proved fleeting. We should guard ours vigilantly.
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...