Thousands of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet ...

President Ronald Reagan, right, talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during arrival ceremonies at the White House where the superpowers begin three-day talks in 1987. Boris Yurchenko AP It was a ...

Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough to ...

President Putin is not attending the funeral of his Kremlin predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev, on Saturday in what many are interpreting as a deliberate snub. A public farewell ceremony was held for ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The funeral and burial plans for Mikhail Gorbachev sum up the crosscurrents of his legacy — final farewells are to be said in the same place where his rigid Soviet predecessors also lay, ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, was buried Saturday after a farewell ceremony ...

Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent passing brought back many memories of the man, the Cold War and America’s eventual triumph over the Soviet Union in 1991. Praised by many in the West and reviled by many ...

Joe DiMaggio only ever asked one person to sign a baseball for him — Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, the Yankee Clipper was invited by the Reagan White House to a state dinner honoring the Russian leader, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday, citing scheduling conflicts, but he paid tribute to the last Soviet leader Thursday, the Kremlin said. In ...

Mikhail Gorbachev's mother has sold the house where he was born to a former Russian rock star for about $28. Maria Panteleymonovna Gorbachev sold her house in the southern Russian town of Privolnoye ...

Sharon Werning Rivera is professor of government at Hamilton College, in Clinton. David W. Rivera is visiting professor of government at Hamilton. On Aug. 30, one of the great men of the 20th century ...