Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

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 ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991. On December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and ... the overwhelming majority of the Russian Supreme Council's deputies voted for the Belavezha ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader credited with ending the Cold War and bringing about the collapse of the USSR, will be laid to rest on Saturday, after having died Tuesday at the age of 91.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the last Soviet ... Communist Party’s Central Committee in 1985, then headed the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, proposed to establish the post of president and ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 ... psychologically on the last leader of the Soviet Union. In his autobiography published in Russia in 2017, Gorbachev wrote: “My mother was Ukrainian.

In the early 1980s he was able to warn the West that fears among the paranoid Soviet leadership of a ... her early contacts with the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, whose ascent to power helped ...

The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that current tension between Russia and the West is putting the world in "colossal danger" due to the threat from nuclear weapons. In an ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...

In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation. The Soviet leader struck up a frank and sometimes fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. Gorbachev and ...