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This is not another pipe-sucking reassessment of Mikhail Gorbachev's failed attempt to democratise the Soviet Union thirty years ago. He wasn't actually trying to do that anyway; he was attempting to save the Soviet Union and Communism by civilising and softening the harsh Bolshevik dictatorship that had prevailed since 1917.

George H.W. Bush could have helped Gorbachev in 1991. Instead, he paved the way to Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what the Kremlin is still calling a "special military operation".

'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…

A good article today by Jeff Jacoby, about Gorbachev's complex life and legacy; not terribly new to those who followed the last years of the Soviet Union, but still well put. An excerpt: Even if he could never bring himself to acknowledge the inherent evil of communism, it was to…

THE death last week of Mikhail Gorbachev is a reminder to us all in the West of the man that helped hasten the demise of the Soviet Union proving…

Tile-matching video games started in the Soviet Union with 'Tetris,' but the idea rapidly spread around the world. And 'Super Puyo Puyo 2' is among the cutest of the bunch.

Speaking in Venice, Sergei Loznitsa said situation in Ukraine shows that ‘history repeats itself when we don’t learn from’ it

The man who liberalised the Soviet Union died last week, beset by a sense that his country had been betrayed – by the west and history

Hailed a hero by the west for banishing Stalin’s legacy and ending the cold war, he was ultimately reviled at home

Mr Putin did lay flowers at Mr Gorbachev’s coffin at the hospital where he died