Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of ... was appointed General Secretary and head of the Soviet Union. At 54 he was one of the youngest leaders and was seen as the new broom that ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only ... on his 91st birthday. The head of the state's telegram was published on Wednesday on the Kremlin website.

“This afternoon, after a long and serious illness, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev passed away ... between 1985 and 1991 and head of state of the USSR between 1988 -1991. During those years ...

How do you account for the fact that at a very dramatic moment the head of government ... the Theater of Nations’ stage production called Gorbachev. Have you seen them? How does it feel to ...

They killed in Budapest in 1956. They killed in Prague in 1968. Mikhail Gorbachev refused to follow suit. He had almost 400,000 troops in Germany, as Rice said. They did not stir. They were not ...

TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev has described the moment he stepped down as the head of state as "dark days" for himself, for the Soviet Union and for Russia.

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

In 1985, after three elderly leaders died in quick succession, Gorbachev, a protégé of former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, was appointed General Secretary and head of the Soviet Union.

News Wrap: Test launch for Artemis 1 moon mission postponed again In our news wrap Saturday, NASA's Artemis moon mission has been postponed a second time, excessive heat is scorching the West ...