Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the southern Russian province of Stravropol Krai. Born to peasant ...

And he brought democracy to the Soviet Union, allowing each republic (like Russia) to elect its own leadership (like Yeltsin, a former protege of Gorbachev's). In August 1991, Gorbachev and ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state must guard the principles of democracy. "Defending the principles ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

In front of a clearly hostile assemblage of European diplomats, Vice President JD Vance confronted our allies with their ...

Based on my numerous assignments abroad and work for Director of Central Intelligence Bill Casey, I have concluded that ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

He confronts a governing class that has abandoned the values America and the Continent share.

and adheres to the doctrines of democracy and Russia represents a diametrically ... Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and now Vladimir Putin, they each have been sternly committed ...

By relaxing bureaucracy and censorship Gorbachev hoped to transform the Stalinist Soviet regime into a more modern social democracy. While glasnost was widely celebrated, his attempts to ...