The US and China seem headed for a trade pact while Trump looks for deals with Gulf states. What we’ve seen, though, is that ...

On Friday 9 May 2025, in a packed hall at the Greek Union of Editors of Daily Press, the presentation of the new book by ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

This speech was given by Andrei Ritsky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia, at the ...

Gorbachev used three instruments to try and revitalise the USSR. He introduced perestroika to restructure the economy on market-based instruments. He decided that to achieve its objectives the ...

And what is the role of geopolitics in all this? To understand this, we must go back to the early 1990s, when Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘perestroika’ policy led to a break-up of the Soviet Union.

By the time of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika, Soviet automotive technology was in visible decline, and following the USSR’s collapse, Russia’s struggling economy and industrial sector ...

I remember very well the story of a man named Yakovlev who was Gorbachev’s ideological advisor, and he was the man who invented “perestroika” and “glasnost” — the concepts that drove ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...

But only to crumble in one fell swoop at Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost perestroika in 1991. Presuming the soviets were earnest in establishing communism the world over, yet they retained the ...