LOS ANGELES (AP) — Werner Herzog says there’s a “subversive message” to his new documentary “Meeting Gorbachev”: Talk to your geopolitical enemies. Herzog interviewed former Soviet Union President ...

Gorbachev is proud of the role he played in bringing down the Berlin Wall. MOSCOW, Nov. 8, 2009 — -- In June 1987, President Reagan came to the Berlin Wall and make a famous appeal to Soviet ...

The USSR was the last empire of the planet Earth. Mikhail Gorbachev is practically the only emperor who physically survived his empire. For ten years, the Russian TV viewer practically did not see the ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, ...

Explorations of Russian ballet and government, and Jimi Hendrix performing at a gigantic outdoor music festival, make for art-house cinema films for this week. “The White Crow”: Russian ballet dancer ...