Mikhail Gorbachev was a village boy of Russian-Ukrainian heritage who changed the course of 20th century history. A man whose deeply held convictions as to the perils of nuclear war re-defined ...

On the night of the first post-Communist Russian presidential election in 1996, a huge table inside Mikhail Gorbachev’s Moscow headquarters was laid out with salmon, caviar and shashlik, with ...

Left: Honor guards stand by the coffin of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, during a memorial service at the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow, Russia Sept. 3, 2022.

Russians said farewell to the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday in a funeral that has been snubbed by President Vladimir Putin.

Mikhail Gorbachev was haunted. Haunted by the history that will not end. He was haunted as was Shakespeare's Hamlet, time was out of joint. His curse, like Hamlet, was to be born to put it right.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday aged 91, was set to be buried without state honors or President Vladimir Putin in attendance.

President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev at lower right visits Stanford University June 4, 1990. Behind and to the the left is California U.S. Senator Alan Cranston. Jeffrey May Mikhail ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was widely acclaimed in the West, but reviled by many at home Mr Gorbachev died on Tuesday, aged 91. He took power in 1985, introducing bold reforms and opening the USSR to the ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91 - with Joe Biden leading tributes and calling him "a man of remarkable vision" who helped avert the prospect of nuclear war.

Gorbachev's Western liberal fans despised Ronald Reagan and have sought ever since to credit Gorbachev with the end of the Cold War. In 1990, he was even awarded the Nobel Peace Prize—long ...

Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin said Thursday, in a snub of the former Soviet leader with whom the Russian President had a fraught relationship.

In Russia and around the world, Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered on Wednesday. The last leader of the Soviet Union died Tuesday at 91, and his passing brought sharply different reactions. Nick ...