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 ...

“Though Gorbachev was late in breaking out of the human rights gate, the positive changes he ultimately initiated would have been unthinkable to us in the Soviet human rights advocacy movement a ...

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

“Bush got up and offered his hand across the entire width of the table and shook me by the hand, saying that he did not consider us enemies either.” But Gorbachev had much harsher words for Trum ...

Most Americans live hand-to-mouth, even if their lives are better than in developing countries. When Trump takes away their jobs, their houses will be repossessed by lender banks, their cars will ...

They talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course. But the U.S. and Russian presidents also chatted about improving ...

History tells us that it was at the Malta summit in December 1989, that Gorbachev and US President George H.W. Bush declared ...

Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for ... Gorbachev told the nation as he stepped down. “However, let us acknowledge what has been achieved so far. Society has acquired freedom; it ...

DENNIS ROSS is Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Professor at Georgetown University. He is the ...

He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow. The USCentral Intel­ligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist ...