MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state ...

the attempted 1991 coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; or more recently, the 2011 cut to the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor’s. August wasted no time serving up the volatility ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize ... His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after ...