His smile doesn’t just capture the end of the Cold War, but the beginning of possibility. Former President of the Soviet Union, the late Mikhail Gorbachev: ...

For the Soviet Union, the conflict became a “bleeding wound,” in the words of that country’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. Over nine years, the USSR lost 14,500 soldiers.

Trump ought to tell Putin there will be "all hell to pay" if Special Envoy Steve Witkoff doesn’t leave Moscow with a smile on his face. Then, of course, Trump would have to back it up, but that ...

O’Shea tells this magazine that he was inspired by 2008 Louis Vuitton advertisements starring Sean Connery, Keith Richards, Francis Ford Coppola and Mikhail Gorbachev, among others, shot by ...

There was also a telegram from the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. “Samantha shone like a brilliant beam of sunshine,” he wrote, ”at a time when relations between our two countries ...

The hint of a smile appears on his face and he again pauses. ... One can only wonder what Oleg Gordievsky would make of the reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing in August 2022.

When Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, he had no greater champion than Mikhail Gorbachev. ... with a slight smile on his face. Vladimir Putin insists he lives on a government salary.

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, center, laughs outside the Minnesota Governor’s residence on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, after having lunch with Gov. Rudy Perpich, top left, and other ...

Patience, perseverance, diplomacy—and faith in the young people of today’s Russia—will be required in the difficult and perilous period ahead. “Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev gave us 30 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a village boy of Russian-Ukrainian heritage who changed the course of 20th century history. A man whose deeply held convictions as to the perils of nuclear war re-defined the ...

The famous 1998 commercial for Pizza Hut featuring Mikhail Gorbachev — the last leader of the Soviet Union — went viral after he died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. At the start of the video, Gorbachev ...

Gromyko might have been chosen for this task because he knew how to reassure Brezhnevite hard-liners that Gorbachev wouldn’t change too much too quickly, and would be willing to defend the system by ...