MOSCOW (AP) — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev ...

BERLIN — The passing of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to Communist-ruled European nations, was mourned Wednesday as a rare ...

MOSCOW -- Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died ...

Across the rest of the globe, particularly in a still divided Europe, “Gorby,” as the press called him, was a rock star. Here was a Soviet leader who, more than anyone else on either side of the Cold ...

Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin said Thursday, in a snub of the former Soviet leader with whom the Russian President had a fraught relationship. Spokesman ...

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev on December 6, 1989. (Wojtek Laski / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree ...

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS — Mikhail S.

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated. By Valerie Hopkins ...

Mark Katkov is an editor at NPR. He was the CBS News Moscow Bureau producer during the Gorbachev and Yeltsin years. William Taubman's extraordinary new biography, Gorbachev: His Life and Times, is fly ...

Director Vitaly Mansky secures an intimate audience with the former Soviet premier whose democratic reforms helped end the Cold War in 'Gorbachev. Heaven.' By Stephen Dalton A lyrical portrait of a ...

Russian docmaker Vitaly Mansky asks Mikhail Gorbachev some tough questions — but even when he doesn't get answers, the results are remarkable. Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker ...