Can the two leaders achieve the sort of rapport that helped Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev face the threat of nuclear proliferation in the 1980s.
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It’s extremely rare for a Russian leader to be ousted in a coup.
What does the wealth of books, documentaries and dramas about the Chernobyl disaster tell us that history alone cannot?
The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The move has prompted fears of a new nuclear arms race.
America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?
Putin is planning to bring a mass tourism industry to Russia’s wild far east.
Renewed fighting in the South Caucasus has some wondering, “Where are the great powers?”
Pavlovsky became the ultimate insider – until he fell out with the boss he had helped make all-powerful.
Russia is walking away from the last remaining treaty designed to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
A historian counters the popular view that the 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall set in motion talks to end apartheid. The process was unstoppable by then.
The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union brought tributes, largely from the west. But his real legacy has been misunderstood.
Ramaphosa’s presidency has been dogged by several controversies related to his business interests.
The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
For over a decade, Putin has been systematically destroying Gorbachev’s historic achievements.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Glasnost was hailed as one of the Soviet leader’s great achievements. But it was a fragile freedom and soon overturned by Vladimir Putin.
Gorbachev failed in his two main aims: to hold togteher a reformed Soviet Union and cement its place in a new world order.
The INF treaty signed by Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan prohibited medium-range missiles.
While Mikhail Gorbachev was feted in the West — he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 — he was widely despised in Russia by those both mourning and celebrating the end of Soviet power.
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