In up-close encounters with Russians on the western border with the EU, Howard Amos seeks out human stories behind the headlines ...

Instead of continuing to reckon, as Gorbachev and Yeltsin did, with the true causes of the Soviet Union’s fall from superpower status, Putin would rather erase the public’s memory of the ...

MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. The Soviet Union's first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his birthday and wished him fortitude in strengthening ...

Faced with a crisis that he inherited from his predecessor, President Vladimir Putin succeeded in stabilizing ... and responsibility of the President. Gorbachev, author of The New Russia ...

On Thursday, Putin privately laid flowers at Gorbachev’s coffin at a Moscow hospital where he died. The Kremlin said the president’s busy schedule would prevent him from attending the funeral.

On Feb. 26, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation,” Gorbachev’s foundation in Moscow issued a statement calling for an immediate suspension ...

As the Russia-Ukraine war approaches its third anniversary, the recent phone conversations between Donald Trump and Vladimir ...