Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liberator, failed reformer or architect of Soviet demise? Bryn Colton/Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a decent man — too decent to be the leader of his country, a fact that is more obvious than ever today. He tried to reform the USSR, eventually to democratize it, but was ...

Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered in the West as the man who ended the Cold War without bloodshed. Inside Russia, many see him ...

Former Secretary of State James Baker on Tuesday paid tribute to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at 91 earlier in the day, calling the former world leader a “giant who steered ...

It’s hard to sift history’s judgment from the hot takes, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telegram of condolence on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev does little to help. “He ...

Gorbachev was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, credited with helping bring an end to the Cold War — and in turn, the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t attend the funeral of former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin said Thursday, attributing it to scheduling conflicts, though it’s probably a ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Russian leader who was instrumental in ending the Cold War, creating a more free and democratic society in his country and bringing an end to the Soviet Union, died ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...

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 ...

Former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev died Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies reported. In July, a close friend told Forbes Russia that Gorbachev was "upset" with the current state of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his legacy, complex. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by many ...