Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for reductions in atomic weapons arsenals across the great nuclear powers.

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

CIA estimates show that it remained relatively constant as a proportion of the Soviet gross national product during the 1980s, including Gorbachev's first four years in office. Soviet defense ...

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/. First of all, I want to thank the government of Iceland for invitation to participate in the conference marking the 30th anniversary of the Reykjavik summit of the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many... In what sounds like ...

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.