I went to Stavropol, Mr. Gorbachev’s hometown, more than 1,200 kilometres south of Moscow. “He was always different from the rest of us,” said Sergio Morozov, a friend.

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday but will not attend the late former Soviet leader's funeral, a decision reflecting the Kremlin's ambivalence about ...

MOSCOW Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, added his voice to a nascent anti-Kremlin protest movement Wednesday, calling for the results of increasingly disputed ...

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at 91, is being remembered in the West as a leader who ended the Cold War, but his legacy is quite different in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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 ...

Gorbachev’s contemporaries pointed to the end of the Cold War as one of his achievements. “Mikhail Gorbachev played a critical role in the peaceful end to the Cold War.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (L) meets U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Geneva, Switzerland on Nov. 19, 1985. The leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international di… Full Caption ...

In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev reacts during his interview to the Associated Press at his foundation's headquarters in Moscow, Russia.

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 was laid to rest Saturday in Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, with whom he shared the world stage in a visibly close and loving marriage that was ...