Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul F. deLespinasse Mikhail Gorbachev, who recently died at age 91, brought to life a political possibility I had discussed ...

A few months after the politburo chose him as Soviet supremo in early 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev halted his cortege in downtown Leningrad for an impromptu walkabout that signalled change was in the air.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, opened the door to democracy in Russia. But that was not what he intended to do. A fervent believer in a more humane version of communism, he thought the policies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America's transformation under President Donald Trump has parallels with Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the last years of the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev died almost exactly 42 years after the movement that gave his life meaning was born. Gorbachev’s whole career as the leader of the Soviet Union was a response to the Solidarity ...

NEW YORK (AP) — One stood for freedom, openness, peace and closer ties with the outside world. The other is jailing critics, muzzling journalists, pushing his country deeper into isolation and waging ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, was buried Saturday after a farewell ceremony ...

The Trans-Siberian express was on the platform in Beijing, readying for its weeklong journey to Moscow via the Chinese city of Harbin. Six Westerners were aboard, myself included. I was the only ...

The death of the last Secretary-General of the USSR Communist Party and the last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, brought to an end the life of one of the most important statesmen of the 21st ...