play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.

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 ...

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 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...