Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liberator, failed reformer or architect of Soviet demise? Bryn Colton/Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died Tuesday at the age of 91. Gorbachev was a towering figure in world politics in the late 20th century, and after he left that stage, he ...

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A look back at the political career of the former Soviet leader who was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party 25 years ago The first Soviet leader to be born after the 1917 Bolshevik ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been buried in Moscow after a ceremony attended by thousands of mourners but snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin’s refusal to formally ...

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Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev struggled to make up his mind about Vladimir Putin. Over the more than 20 years after Putin came to power, the ex-Soviet leader embraced, then rejected, then embraced again the man ...