As the world was reacting to the death and funeral for Mikhail Gorbachev last week, many in Laramie were reflecting on the time the former Soviet leader visited the Gem City. Gorbachev died Aug. 30 at ...

Speaking at the podium used by Winston Churchill, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks at Westminster College in Fulton on Wednesday, May 6, 1992. This was the same site where Churchill, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baerbel Bas, President of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, delivers a speech during the memorial hour for the late former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev confer during the US-Soviet Summit in July 1991 - Getty Images Who won the Cold War? There was a ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet Union leader who died Tuesday, made at least two visits to Long Island in the years following his resignation as president. In one, a Hofstra University conference ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his legacy, complex. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by many ...

The paradox of Mikhail Gorbachev’s major accomplishments is that none was intentional—not the destruction of the Soviet Union, not the demise of socialist ideology, not the independence of formerly ...