The legacies of Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan couldn't be more different. One left office still hugely popular while the other was reviled by his own people.

The obituaries for Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet premier who was buried this month, are a reminder of how unresolved is the historical debate over how much credit Gorbachev should get for the peaceful ...

When word came last week that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union, had died, it was front-page news in the West and a matter of studied indifference in official ...

On the night of the first post-Communist Russian presidential election in 1996, a huge table inside Mikhail Gorbachev’s Moscow headquarters was laid out with salmon, caviar and shashlik, with ...

Russians who came for a last look at former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday mourned both the man and his policies that gave them hope. President Vladimir Putin claimed to be too busy ...

Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev did not have a full state send-off at the historic Hall of Columns.

Russians said farewell to the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday in a funeral that has been snubbed by President Vladimir Putin.

Jill Dougherty, who covered Raisa Gorbacheva’s funeral in 1999, writes how Raisa’s marriage to husband Mikhail Gorbachev (which began in 1953, the same year Stalin died) was a transformative ...

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.

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated.