For years, rumors have swirled about Vladimir Putin’s declining health, with speculation ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s ...

– In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Konstantin Chernenko as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Konstantin Chernenko as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and ...

In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as Soviet leader. In 2001, more than 400 people were killed in an earthquake in El Salvador.

In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as Soviet leader.

In 1984, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, 69, died 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev; he was followed by Konstantin Chernenko (chehr-NYEN’-koh), who would only be in power for 13 months before ...

Dan Sullivan, former advance man for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, died Tuesday at the age of 79. Sullivan grew up in Fort Lauderdale and returned to South Florida frequently during his ca… ...

Then came Konstantin Chernenko who died in 1985, at 74 from pneumonia. Boris Yeltsin, who retired in 1999 and died in 2007 from heart failure at age 76, criticized his successor Vladimir Putin for ...

"So, thank you very much, but I think it's better not to return to the situation of the mid-1980s." Soviet rulers Leonid Brezhnev, Yury Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko all died in office ...

He was assigned to the CBS News Moscow bureau from 1984-86, from where he covered three Soviet leaders -- Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev.