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 ...

But it was a childhood blessed with unusual strokes of good fortune. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born March 2, 1931, in the village of Privolnoye in southern Russia. Both of his grandfathers ...

Congressionally Chartered. Scholarship Driven. Fiercely Nonpartisan.

March 2, 2011 – On his 80th birthday, Gorbachev is awarded Russia’s highest honor, the Order of St. Andrew, by President Dmitry Medvedev. March 7, 2013 – In an interview with the BBC ...

"I knew Mikhail Sergeyevich [Gorbachev] since he had led a party organization in the Stavropol region, and we were friends ever since. I’d like to offer my deepest condolences to his family and ...

He was 91. "Tonight, after a serious and prolonged illness, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev has died," the hospital said. Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931.He graduated from the Department of Law ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader credited with ending the Cold War and bringing about the collapse of the USSR, will be laid to rest on Saturday, after having died Tuesday at the age of 91.

Gorbachev died at the Central Clinical Hospital on August 30. He was 91. "Mikhail Sergeyevich will be buried, as he willed, next to his spouse Raisa at the Novo-Dyevitchiye cemetery," the source said.

Lavrov said that following Gorbachev’s death a lot of commentaries ... "When Western figures praising Mikhail Sergeyevich's contribution to world politics ignore these statements of his, which ...

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.