Forty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev set out to make the USSR great again, to coin a phrase. He was acutely aware of the uncompetitive nature of the USSR’s economy and the need to inject market ...

Frantz was one of the founders of the Atlanta Pipe Band in 1970, which has played for presidents Carter and Bush, King Charles, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Dalai Lama. 'His dedication, kindness ...

astonished "that Western reporters had written so fondly for a decade of then President Eduard Shevardnadze's 'reformist' agenda and yet rarely mentioned the cold and dark to which it led." ...

NATO should be replaced with a non-militarized security infrastructure. That’s what Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, offered to the West in the late 1980s. If they had more humility ...

The late Soviet premier is popularly regarded as a leader who ushered in a new era. The more complicated truth is that he failed to fully extricate himself from the old one.

The so-called truce declared by Vladimir Putin to cover Easter officially ended late last night. We reported earlier that Ukraine said Russia violated that "ceasefire" nearly 3,000 times - see our ...

Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter.

Who is Russia’s new PM? A career bureaucrat with no political aims As a career bureaucrat who has been in charge of Russia's taxes for the past 10 years, Mikhail Mishustin has always kept a low ...

Trump: If Russia or Ukraine make it difficult, we'll just take a pass.

Indeed, it’s not exactly surprising that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s increased cooperation with Ronald Reagan towards the end of the Cold War was closely followed by the arrival of chains like ...