Born in post-war Leningrad amid the grim legacy of the Nazi siege, the young Vladimir ... once Mikhail Gorbachev permitted real elections after 1989. On returning from East Germany, Putin left ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize ... carried by Russian news agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin offered deep condolences over Gorbachev’s death and would send ...

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government announced ... an efflorescence of truth under the leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin had revealed the full extent of the Soviet ...

Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90 on Tuesday ... between our two countries,” Merkel said. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Gorbachev in a letter published by the Kremlin, hailing ...

After listener Margaret got in touch asking about Steve Rosenberg’s life in Moscow as the BBC’s Russia Editor, Nick and Amol ...

Empires are costly and inefficient, and imperialism is costly and counterproductive, with both combining to generate the very ...

Vladimir Putin has spoken to Azerbaijan's president about the plane crash and apologised as the "tragic incident" took place in Russian airspace. Russia has accused UK and US spies of trying to ...