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Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Prize for helping end the nuclear arms race while presiding over the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who brought down the Iron Curtain, died at the age 91 following a long illness Tuesday, according to Russian state and independent media.
In July 1989, a 64-year-old Ukrainian man was executed. He was the last member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army to be put to ...
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, Russian state media reported on Tuesday. Long before he died, the final Soviet leader had been consigned to near political oblivion in ...
The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...
The rumors that China’s Xi Jinping has been ousted, or is on the verge of losing power, have drawn the attention of China ...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...
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What Would the World Look Like if the Soviet Union Never Collapsed?The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...
As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state ...
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Worldcrunch on MSNGhosts Of Franco And Gorbachev In Iran’s Last Chance For Regime Change From WithinLike Spain after Franco, La Stampa’s Bernard Guetta argues, Iran faces a crucial choice between authoritarian decay and democratic renewal. Before time runs out.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a state in peril – one whose decades-long revisionist foreign policy has had a boomerang ...
Between Gorbachev and Xi, no greater contrast is possible. One devolved the power of his position as Supremo of the CPSU to a fault, the other has taken over all the key centres of the CCP. Yet, given ...
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