Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, the Kremlin has confirmed. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin's work schedule ...

MOSCOW, August 31. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin offers his deepest condolences over the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on ...

Sobchak was in a position to present himself as a new broom once Mikhail Gorbachev permitted real elections after 1989. On returning from East Germany, Putin left the KGB and became one of Sobchak ...

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government announced the ... an efflorescence of truth under the leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin had revealed the full extent of ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the ... carried by Russian news agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin offered deep condolences over Gorbachev’s death and would ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on ... Congratulatory messages came in from around the world, even from Putin. Gorbachev took part in the event online from his hospital room because ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

After listener Margaret got in touch asking about Steve Rosenberg’s life in Moscow as the BBC’s Russia Editor, Nick and Amol ...

As Ukraine suffers bombardment and Putin’s regime retains its repressive ... Another major figure, Mikhail Gorbachev, loomed over this narrative as I read Patriot. Navalny described loathing ...