Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered in the West as the man who ended the Cold War without bloodshed. Inside Russia, many see him ...

America's transformation under President Donald Trump has parallels with Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the last years of the Soviet Union, and the effects will be felt throughout the democratic, ...

Gorbachev is proud of the role he played in bringing down the Berlin Wall. MOSCOW, Nov. 8, 2009 — -- In June 1987, President Reagan came to the Berlin Wall and make a famous appeal to Soviet ...

Mikhail Gorbachev opened the door, and Boris Yeltsin walked out of it. Several other prominent Soviet politicians, including the mayors of Moscow and Leningrad, quickly joined Yeltsin in giving up ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people—which he genuinely was—he increasingly became despised by many within ...