MIKHAIL GORBACHEV’S death has prompted a torrent of commentary confirming the old adage that “the history we write tells more about the present than the past.” Some pay fitting tribute to the former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikolai Ryzhkov, right, with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989: two years later, he steered Gorbachev away from a too-radical ...

This is an opinion column. Overnight, Moscow city officials removed the flowers from the Wall of Grief, a monument to the victims of political persecution by Joseph Stalin during the country’s Soviet ...

“Imagine a country that launches Sputnik and it can’t solve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap, not the basic necessities of life. It was humiliating to work in such a ...

On a chilly day in late 1986, thousands of protesters gathered on the streets of Alma-Ata, then the capital of Soviet Kazakhstan. They were mostly young, and mostly ethnic Kazakh. And they all had one ...

About two years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the words glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) into the world’s vocabulary. These words have become symbols of hope for a fundamental ...

LONDON — Mikhail Gorbachev’s death is being mourned by the U.S. and its allies Wednesday as the loss of a champion of freedom who helped end the Cold War. But his legacy is very different at home, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former general secretary of the Communist Party (CP) and president of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in a Moscow hospital. He had reportedly been suffering ...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev pausing to smile while chatting up press during a lighthearted moment in G7 mtgs. (Dirck Halstead / Getty Images) On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader ...

Alexander Yakovlev, who advised Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on glasnost and perestroika, was buried this week. After the Soviet Union collapsed he devoted himself to documenting Soviet repression.

RIP, Mikhail Gorbachev, a leader who spoke, as he described it, “the language of practical politics” and ended the Cold War — albeit, not in Cuba or Miami. But, for an inspiring era of hope, he was ...

Characterizations of Gorbachev as a “quintessential apparatchik” or a blood-stained “totalitarian” who hadn’t sought “to end tyranny” and could only imagine Russia as “an empire” are truly bizarre—and ...