Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the southern Russian province of Stravropol Krai. Born to peasant ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... more open to acknowledging where communism had fallen short in the Soviet Union. But his rise was at first inauspicious for ...

America might adopt a mercantilist trade policy and a relatively isolationist foreign policy. This approach goes against the ...

Trump bolstered Putin’s bargaining position in the past week, but the road to this alliance has been years in the making.

Since 1945, the U.S.-Europe relationship has largely been defined by opposition to the Soviet Union. This was the crux of the Cold War: the free West vs. the Iron Curtain in the East. It was this ...

Pretty much everyone wants the war in Ukraine to end. A conflict unleashed on its neighbour by Russia which has led to an ...

Based on my numerous assignments abroad and work for Director of Central Intelligence Bill Casey, I have concluded that ...

The memory of Soviet-era famines, mass killings and other traumas makes Ukraine determined not to return to Russian rule ...

The astronaut had to extend his space voyage. But, little did he know that he would be the last man standing on his return to ...

The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd writes that Xi Jinping has embraced an assertive nationalism that aims to put ...

An assessment and warning that democracies around the world are under siege and authoritarianism is on the rise.