BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that tensions between Russia and European powers over the Ukraine crisis could result in a major conflict or even nuclear war, in an ...
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The August Coup

The author is a writer and a senior fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research The Soviet Union was tottering. Mikhail Gorbachev sought to overcome the crisis by pursuing perestroika ...
Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people—which he genuinely was—he increasingly became despised by many within ...