Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news ...

Leaders from around the world continued paying tribute Wednesday to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, after his death at the age of 91 was confirmed the previous day. President ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent passing brought back many memories of the man, the Cold War and America’s eventual triumph over the Soviet Union in 1991. Praised by many in the West and reviled by many ...

Thousands of mourners lined Moscow streets Saturday to pay their respects at the official funeral of the final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at 91 after ...

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a central role in ending the Cold War, died Tuesday at the age of 91. Russian media reported his death, citing the hospital that was treating him as ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the world ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. By Robert D. McFadden The leadership ...

Steve Forbes and Mikhail Gorbechev in 1992. The Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of 1991. The following year Mikhail Gorbachev, now out of power, wanted to come to the U.S. with a small group of ...