Mikhail gorbachev

A former Soviet statesman.

In an interview with the BBC earlier this month, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that current tension between Russia and the West is putting the world in "colossal danger" due to the threat from nuclear weapons.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying.

Twenty-five years later, we take a look back at the August 19 coup attempt in Russia. Led by the Gang of Eight, men who owed their political careers to Mikhail Gorbachev, attempted establish a new dictatorship.

The architect of ‘perestroika’ and ‘glasnost’—restructuring and openness—unleashed a wave of unstoppable forces that led to the bloc’s demise

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the seventh and last undisputed leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

Ivan Canu's Illustration of Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev is still widely admired in the West, but his popularity stops at the Russian border. A March 2011 poll found that only one in 20 Russians admire the Soviet Union’s last leader, and that “…

Excerpt of Mikhail Gorbachev's new book The New Russia. 'The rift between government and people can no longer be tolerated'