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 ...

Currently the only living Russian ex-president is Mr Putin's ally Dmitry Medvedev. Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev would not get such immunity, because he was not Russian president.

The Middle East and Ukraine wars increase nuclear risk, the New START treaty between the United States and Russia — which President Vladimir Putin ... meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader ...

TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the Soviet authorities had underestimated the scale of inter-ethnic problems in the Soviet Union and the need for ...

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

On Christmas Day 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his post ... I documented rising neo-Sovietism in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Over a decade later, this sentiment still ...

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

At the time of the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev and Ukraine’s declaration ... Simultaneously translating President Putin is a different kind of challenge. Putin doesn’t shy away ...