Some reflections on the role of RFE/RL in bringing the voice and hope of freedom to the peoples subjugated by Moscow’s ...

The Emperor and Empress are scheduled to visit Mongolia from July 6 to 8 pay their respects to Japanese nationals who died in the country while being interned in a forced labor camp after the end of ...

Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy ...

Mikhail Gorbachev receives applause from the audience in Oslo as he enters to deliver a Nobel lecture in 1991, a year after winning the Peace Prize. Pic: AP Economically, perestroika was not working.

In August 1991, Gorbachev and his family were placed under house arrest during a coup, and fortunately released. Irina shared with me how frightened they were thinking they would meet the same ...

Gorbachev's very public devotion to his family broke the stuffy mold of previous Soviet leaders, just as his openness to political reform did. Mikhail Gorbachev was buried Saturday at Moscow’s ...

FILE - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev reads some notes in his office with a portrait of his late wife Raisa in the background, at the Gorbachev Fund in Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2001.

Gorbachev had humble beginnings: He was born into a peasant family in Privolnoye on March 2, 1931. Here, he's with his parents in Privolnoye.

Gorbachev had humble beginnings: He was born into a peasant family in Privolnoye on March 2, 1931. Here, he's with his parents in Privolnoye.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday aged 91, was set to be buried without state honors or President Vladimir Putin in attendance.

Mikhail Gorbachev was laid to rest Saturday in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, with whom he shared the world stage in a visibly close and loving marriage that was ...

Thousands of people in Russia have paid their final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end. Many queued for hours to file past his coffin ...