The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

Who is Russia’s new PM? A career bureaucrat with no political aims As a career bureaucrat who has been in charge of Russia's taxes for the past 10 years, Mikhail Mishustin has always kept a low ...

In between, he worked on Mikhail Gorbachev’s summer house in Abkhazia. “I don’t know why they chose me,” he said in a 2013 interview. “But I went through a good school - maybe that’s why.

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...