MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold ...

In 1985, it led to Gorbachev deciding that the war was untenable. Only then did Moscow become increasingly willing to offer concessions advantageous to the U.S. and its partners.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev delivers a lecture entitled "My Life in Politics" at the International University he founded, in Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was set to throw a Zoom party in quarantine to celebrate his 90th birthday on Tuesday, as President Vladimir Putin hailed him as an ...

Accustomed to blindly executing orders from above, the officials offered little resistance. Putin has none of Gorbachev’s idealistic humanism, but he does resemble Gorbachev in one critical respect: ...

The Kremlin could have started World War Three in 1989 had it used troops to crush the demonstrations that preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday.

A 1989 ZIL-41052 armored limo from Russia that claims previous passengers including former leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin is currently for sale online for $1.6 million.

Oleg Bogomolov, director of Moscow’s Institute of International Economic and Political Research, speculates that Gorbachev then took a new look at the central bureaucracy.