CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR.PersonalBirth date: March 2, 1931Death date: August ...

On Feb. 26, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation,” Gorbachev’s foundation in Moscow issued a statement calling for an immediate suspension ...

Yakovlev considered the deployment illogical and self-defeating before President Reagan announced SDI and the buildup of American military forces. He and Gorbachev were "united" on this issue.

Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

This should define the role and responsibility of the President. Gorbachev, author of The New Russia, is a former leader of the Soviet Union ...

TOKYO, December 17. /TASS/. Former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview with Japan’s Asahi newspaper, published on Tuesday, that by quitting nuclear arms control treaties ...