Mikhail Gorbachev set out to save the Soviet Union with bold reforms. Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its ...

You should have never started it.” As cameras rolled during an explosive press conference in the Oval Office in February, U.S. President Donald Trump used these words to blame Volodymyr Zelensky, the ...

To the editor: In 1989, I was in Berlin, Germany, when Mr. Gorbachev responded to President Reagan’s call to “tear down this wall.” I was traveling as a citizen ambassador with People-to ...

Former Soviet Union leader Mikahil Gorbachev spends time with reporters prior to speaking to the general public as part of Guilford College’s lecture series on Oct. 6, 2004. “It’s been a ...

Former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky explains how, during the 1991 coup attempt, a KGB general would probably have arrived at Mikhail Gorbachev's Black Sea resort to organise a peaceful change of guards ...

Ethnic groups within the Soviet Union would take advantage of Gorbachev’s democratic reforms in hopes of independence; the Baltic States in particular funneled separatist ideas into Ukraine, Belarus, ...

In 1984, Gordievsky briefed soon-to-be Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of his first visit to the U.K. — and also briefed the British on how to approach the reformist Gorbachev. Gorbachev's ...

It paid off the following year when Mrs Thatcher invited Mr Gorbachev, seen as the up-and-coming man in ... being received by Mrs Thatcher in Chequers and Mr Reagan in the Oval Office. In 2007, the ...

It paid off the following year when Mrs Thatcher invited Mr Gorbachev, seen as the up-and ... Thatcher in Chequers and Mr Reagan in the Oval Office. In 2007, the former KGB officer was honoured ...

Eventually, he went in person to a local Social Security office in downtown Seattle, where he waited hours before jumping the line and proving he was alive with his passport. While his benefits ...