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University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about ...

MOSCOW--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 ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

GREENSBORO — The popular Bryan Series will end a 20-season run after mental health advocate and actress Ashley Judd’s April 8 ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

Putin is offering the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in Russia’s Arctic.

By Dele Sobowale He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow.

I was especially intrigued by the episode with Mikhail Gorbachev, with the former Soviet leader hugging and swinging Sonia. Gorbachev had by then lost power, the Soviet Union was no longer. At the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...