Mikhail Gorbachev

Honour or disgrace – how Russia has buried its past leaders

(Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was buried on Saturday in Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery but there was no official day of mourning and it was…

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Why Gorbachev’s legacy still threatens Putin

Little remains of the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader and one of the greatest reformers in Russian history. In the name of “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring),…

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Walesa says Gorbachev played a positive role, but ‘under duress’

GDANSK, (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, played a positive role in ending the Cold War, but he did it "under duress", as Communism was already disintegrating, former…

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Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the…

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UPDATED: Putin will not be attending Gorbachev’s funeral – Kremlin

MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, on Saturday because of schedule constraints, the Kremlin said.…

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While rest of EU mourns, Baltics recall Gorbachev as agent of repression

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Widely praised in the West as a towering statesman who helped end the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered in the Baltic states as a repressive autocrat…

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Gorbachev on Gorbachev: the last Soviet leader in his own words

(Reuters) - Following are some notable quotes from Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. On meeting his wife Raisa (from interview…

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West mourns Gorbachev as peace champion, Russia remembers failures

Aug 31 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev was mourned in the West on Wednesday as a towering statesman who helped to end the Cold War, but his death received a cool…

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UPDATED: Global reactions to the death of last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

Aug 31 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of…

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UPDATED – Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91

(Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital…

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Mikhail Gorbachev accused of war crimes by six Lithuanian citizens

Relatives of victims of a 1991 Soviet crackdown against Lithuania's pro-independence government filed a civil lawsuit in Vilnius against former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, 90, claiming he failed to stop…

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Gorbachev expresses his criticism to Trump’s decision to withdraw USA from nuclear disarmament treaty

President Trump’s announcement that the United States would withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia drew sharp criticism Sunday from one of the men who signed it, Mikhail S. Gorbachev,…

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