Observe today how another exceptional one, Barack Obama, reaches across boundaries as Mikhail Gorbachev did back then. It's not the economy, stupid. It's that glasnost word - openness.

ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty ImagesFormer Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, Russian state media reported on Tuesday. Long before he died, the final Soviet leader had been ...

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Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...

World leaders react to Mikhail Gorbachev’s death with tributes on social media The retired Mr. Khrushchev could only dream of that after his ouster from the Kremlin in 1964.

Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world.

10 hours agoDuration4:03Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who’s credited with ending the Cold War without bloodshed, has died at age 91. As the last leader of the Soviet Union before it ...

Though in 1997 he appeared in a Pizza Hut ad, reportedly for US$1 million, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, who died this week at 91, was never a capitalist. True, after leaving office and ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91 By: Jim Heintz, The Associated Press Posted: 7:12 PM CDT Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022 Last Modified: 1:06 AM CDT Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022 ...

Join the conversation A portrait of the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is displayed in his memory at the Gorbachev Foundation headquarters in Moscow on Aug. 31, 2022.

“Mikhail Gorbachev played a critical role in the peaceful end to the Cold War. At home, he was a figure of historical importance, but not in the way he intended,” said Robert M. Gates, who headed the ...