But it was a childhood blessed with unusual strokes of good fortune. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born March 2, 1931, in the village of Privolnoye in southern Russia. Both of his grandfathers ...

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. He was 91. "Mikhail Sergeyevich will be buried, as he willed, next to his spouse Raisa at the Novo-Dyevitchiye cemetery," the source said.

Lavrov said that following Gorbachev’s death a lot of commentaries ... "When Western figures praising Mikhail Sergeyevich's contribution to world politics ignore these statements of his, which ...

The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that current tension between Russia and the West is putting the world in "colossal danger" due to the threat from nuclear weapons. In an ...

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.