Pyotr Luchinsky emphasized that when Gorbachev launched perestroika, he did not imagine how complicated the situation in the country was CHISINAU, August 31. /TASS/. Mikhail Gorbachev had ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev waves during the May 1 parade in Moscow’s Red Square in 1991. Wojtek Laski/Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered in the West for laying the basis for ...

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 ...

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 ...