CIA estimates show that it remained relatively constant as a proportion of the Soviet gross national product during the 1980s, including Gorbachev's first four years in office. Soviet defense ...

Soviet ldr. Mikhail Gorbachev (L) mtg. w. his summit host Pres. Reagan, sitting, warmed by fire burning in ivy-topped fireplace, in WH Oval Office. (Photo by Dirck Halstead/Getty Images) ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR – at the heart of which was Russia, by nurturing a CIA agent, Mikhail Gorbachev ...

On Dec. 3, 2019, exactly 30 years after the Cold War was declared over in Malta, I was able to interview Gorbachev at the Moscow office of his foundation, the International Foundation for Socio ...

“I see myself as a man who started the reforms that were necessary for the country and for Europe and the world,” Gorbachev told The AP in a 1992 interview shortly after he left office.