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 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader ... Leading publications tackle the question: Gorbachev came to power just as the Marxist-Leninist Communist system was "unraveling," argued The ...

His intelligence was subsequently crucial in guiding Margaret Thatcher in her early contacts with the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, whose ascent to power helped bring the Cold War to a close.

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev ... deep condolences over Gorbachev’s death and would send an official telegram to Gorbachev’s family in the morning. Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev ...

Drawing a parallel with Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to East Germany in ... The ambition of a return to European power can only be based on a real growth strategy, freed from the stamp of ...

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his ...

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. Attempts to use force to stay in power would have ...

The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that current tension ... A fire at a waste disposal centre caused smoke to rise above buildings in the French capital city.

He will assert that those crises can be solved through dialogue between political leaders, and will quote former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who, alongside former U.S. President Ronald ...

MOSCOW, September 12. /TASS/. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sees difficulties in relations between the authorities and the society in Russia, and calls to create a civil society.

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 ...

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.