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 ...

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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

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 ...

Former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky explains how, during the 1991 coup attempt, a KGB general would probably have arrived at Mikhail Gorbachev's Black Sea resort to organise a peaceful change of ...

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 ...

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his ...

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.

The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that current tension between Russia and the West is putting the world in "colossal danger" due to the threat from nuclear weapons. In an ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2 ... which he said had been named Maria after his mother. In August 2019, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which was ...