To document the story of Brexit a decade after the result, the BBC turned to an 84-year-old American. Ben Gartside meets ...

Few surviving 20th-century political figures are so fraught with symbolism as former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Aestheticized in late and post-Soviet culture and the Western Cold War imaginary, ...

Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker-dependent, the former (and final) Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev is an imposing, even intimidating figure — formidable enough to ...

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 ...