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Today’s Russia has paradoxically fallen into a synthesis of the Soviet and Tsarist empires, as constructed by Putin’s political technologists. This historical revenge is incompatible with the modern global world. In Russia, after defeat in war, an era of reforms has usually followed. Thus, perhaps, a "new Gorbachev" may appear soon.

A Russian journalist remembers how Gorbachev used his Nobel purse to fund Novaya Gazeta.

When Mikhail Gorbachev walked into the room for our interview in Moscow, he brought with him the impressive aura of a man who was still a sitting president, a confident leader who was prepared to devote just a bit of his busy schedule to yet another ho-hum exercise of message deliverance, with yet another Western journalist - this one with a camera crew.

Mikhail Gorbachev made a plea for dialogue and renounced the use of force during a visit to the European Parliament. The former president of the Soviet Union was at the Parliament in 2008 for the Energy Globe Award where he picked up a lifetime achievement award. To mark the passing on 30 August of the […]

'We all need to have perestroika," Mikhail Gorbachev would often say. The Soviet Union's last leader lived by that credo. After becoming the general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and implementing his programme of restructuring and glasnost ("openness"), he even changed his job title, preferring to be called president.

Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century, will be laid to rest in a relatively low-key ceremony and without the presence of the current Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be laid to rest Saturday in a Moscow ceremony, but without the fanfare of a state funeral and with the glaring absence of President Vladimir Putin.

Gorbachev will lay in state at the Hall of Columns inside a historic building in central Moscow, traditionally used for the funerals of high officials including Joseph Stalin in 1953.

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be laid to rest Saturday in a Moscow ceremony, but without the fanfare of a state funeral and with the glaring absence