Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who brought in reforms credited with ending the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Moscow’s Central ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his legacy, complex. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by many ...

It is now some three and a half decades since the Soviet Union collapsed. But its past continues to haunt the Left, and its ...

"He may smile, but he has iron teeth," is one of the best remembered descriptions of the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. The line belonged to long-time ...

Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91, almost forgotten and not a happy man. His main achievement was in dismantling the Soviet Union system. The Soviet system was an experiment on governance based on the ...

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Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough to ...

We look at the life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Gorbachev led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991 and has been ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, ...