Forty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev set out to make the USSR great again, to coin a phrase. He was acutely aware of the uncompetitive nature of the USSR’s economy and the need to inject market ...

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 ...

In between, he worked on Mikhail Gorbachev’s summer house in Abkhazia. “I don’t know why they chose me,” he said in a 2013 interview. “But I went through a good school - maybe that’s why.

Reagan did not hesitate to play hardball with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to get the Soviets to agree to arms control. Reagan also avoided the one-word trap, either using humor to send a ...

“After [former USSR President] Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved, in 1991, the KGB top Secret intelligence administration, a lot of material from that department found their way abroad, in particular to the ...

Three Nobel Peace Prize-winning groups campaigning to eliminate nuclear weapons joined forces on Monday to urge the US and Russian presidents to meet and agree on significant denuclearisation.

Important progress has been made at the ITER fusion research reactor in Cadarache in southern France: The solenoid magnet, a central component of the reactor, has been completed. The magnet is ...

Historian Olivier Wieviorka argues that we are currently witnessing the collapse of the international system that emerged after World War II in an opinion piece for Le Monde. By launching his ...

In show of ambivalence, Putin pays tribute to Gorbachev but won’t attend his funeral Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev but will not ...

They are not equal triangles, however. Primakov had noted that the West, instead of dismantling its war machinery, which Mikhail Gorbachev had naively thought would happen, was baring its fangs to ...