Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gorbachev was one of the major political ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose vision of humane communism liberated millions, bridled the global arms race and knocked down the walls dividing East and West, has died, according to ...

As Soviet leader from 1985 to 1991, Gorbachev enacted drastic reforms in the country promoting increased economic and individual freedom, but the communist state collapsed just a day after his ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died Tuesday at the age of 91. ... (Suzanne Nelson/CQ Roll Call) Senate pages pose for a photo with Gorbachev in March 2009.

Gorbachev can be seen in the same photo. An incredible photo of Reagan on an impromptu walk around Red Square in 1986 whilst being tailed by then KGB agent Vladimir Putin.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russians who came for a last look at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday mourned both the man and his policies that gave them hope. President Vladimir Putin claimed to be ...

Mikhail Gorbachev has been buried in Moscow after a ceremony attended by thousands of mourners but snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photos: Gorbachev, snubbed by Putin, has been buried ...

FILE - A monument to Raisa Gorbachev, wife former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stands behind her gravestone at Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000. When Mikhail Gorbachev is ...

He includes a photo of Gorbachev's father, Sergei, in his Red Army uniform, and unlike a typically grim Soviet portrait, Sergei is smiling and his face radiates kindness.

Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed soon afterwards. Previously unknown documents, which SPIEGEL has obtained, show just how ...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks to a Soviet TV newsman at Vnukovo airport outside Moscow, shortly after arriving from Crimea after a three-day coup by Communist Party hard-liners failed ...