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 ...

Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

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.

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

In this first month of the Trump presidency, we are seeing unfold something truly unusual in American politics.

The geographical proximity of the US and Russia to the Arctic Ocean will generate a constant political tremor in the ...

Ronald S. Lauder, an American businessman, diplomat, philanthropist and Jewish social activist has been awarded the Jan ...

The Kremlin propaganda point that seems most attractive to extremists on the left and the right views Russia as a victim of ...

The Rest is History podcast co-host and historian Dominic Sandbrook is working with composer Joseph Phibbs to produce a ...

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati, who, as head of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, raised millions of dollars ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...