Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorbachev ...

Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered in the West as the man who ended the Cold War without bloodshed. Inside Russia, many see him as the leader who destroyed their country. His reforms unleashed forces he ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Friday that "it all looks as if the world is preparing for war," NBC News reported. Gorbachev, who was head of the socialist state when it dissolved in ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Saturday at an event celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall that the world is on the verge of another Cold War. Gorbachev, who ordered Soviet troops to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose drive to transform the Soviet Union ended the Cold War but inadvertently helped bring about his own country’s collapse, has died, according to Russian news agencies. He was 91 ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev may be remembered today as the man who presided over the collapse of an empire: The recent anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 saw major ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, on Thursday urged nations to denounce nuclear weapons and warned that it "looks as if the world is preparing for war" in an opinion piece in ...

A Swiss mansion that was the site of the 1985 Geneva Summit that brought together President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is on the auction block, with bids starting at ...

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