1998 -- Lee Bong-joo sets a new South Korean record of 2:07:44 in men's marathon in the Netherlands. 1999 -- Then Daewoo Group Chairman Kim Woo-choong announces a groupwide restructuring plan. 1999 -- ...

Mikhail Gorbachev set out to save the Soviet Union with bold reforms. Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its ...

One is that in February 1990, when then-U.S. Secretary of State James Baker uttered the words “not one inch eastward,” he allegedly “promised” Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that the ...

U.S. District Court Judge Dominic Lanza handed Oleg Sergeyevich Patsulya an almost six-year sentence on April 2, while Vasilii Sergeyevich Besedin was handed a two-year sentence. The two Florida ...

The father of the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, he won a Peabody Award for television reporting that uncovered a car company’s fraud. By Richard Sandomir Richard Carlson, who won a ...

Trump is imposing a top-down political, social and cultural revolution, with some similarities to Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China in the 60s and Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika ...

The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships wrapped up on Saturday, with Ilia Malinin, the Quad God, repeating as world champion in the men’s free skate at TD Garden in Boston. The 20-year ...

In 1988, Head of Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi initiated the Festival of the Soviet-Indian Friendship, for which Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar ...