The detailed sculpture, unveiled in honor of the 90th anniversary of the Moscow Metro system, is known for its ornate mosaics ...

“Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of remarkable vision,” President ... Soviet Union. The government also ceased jamming foreign radio broadcasts and lifted the ideological restraints that had ...

While Russia is no longer communist, its president, Vladimir Putin, considers the fall of the Soviet Union the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century" and is currently (as of ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the president ... s window on the Soviet Union,” the historian James ...

It was a shorter distance through US history from the White House to the Soviet Union or North Korea than to an autoworkers picket line in Michigan. Presidents like to be the first to do something ...

The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was buried in Moscow on Saturday after a funeral that was snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and not accorded the status of a ...

But across the Soviet Union, republics – one after another – were declaring independence and on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president. As he read his resignation speech ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died, according to Russian media. He was 91. He will be remembered, at least in the West, as a pragmatic leader who ...

Then, in just three years, three elderly leaders of the Soviet Union– Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and then Konstantin Chernenko – died in quick succession. The Politburo voted for youth.

The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco, Monday, June 5, 1990. A quarter-century ...

Then, on Dec. 8, at Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a hunting resort outside the city of Brest in Belarus, Yeltsin and the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus declared the Soviet Union dissolved and formed a ...