(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms, including allowing massive numbers of Jews to emigrate to Israel, changed his country and the world, died at 91. Russian media said ...

MOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. Mikhail Gorbachev, the first president of the Soviet Union, has died, the Central Clinical Hospital said on Tuesday. He was 91. "Tonight, after a serious and prolonged ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize ... The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died after a long illness. No other details were given.

I find it difficult to answer correctly right away, so I will not try," Peskov said. Mikhail Gorbachev died in Moscow on Tuesday at 91 years of age. The farewell ceremony will be held in the ...

The spokesman did not specify what elements of a state funeral would be missing. Mikhail Gorbachev died in Moscow on Tuesday at the age of 91. The farewell ceremony will be held in the Pillar Hall ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader credited with ending the Cold War and bringing about the collapse of the USSR, will be laid to rest on Saturday, after having died Tuesday at the age of 91.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30 at the age of 91 in Moscow after a long-term illness. He was a politician whose name will be forever linked with the end of the Cold War ...

Pope Francis expressed his condolences over the death of Mikhail Gorbachev ... and later to partnership." Gorbachev died in Moscow on Tuesday at the age of 91.

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s aide Anatoly Chernyayev has died at 95, The Gorbachev Foundation has told TASS. Read also Mikhail Gorbachev: A new Union is ...

March 2, 2011 – On his 80th birthday, Gorbachev is awarded Russia’s highest honor, the Order of St. Andrew, by President Dmitry Medvedev. March 7, 2013 – In an interview with the BBC ...

In 1985, after three elderly leaders died in quick succession, Gorbachev, a protégé of former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, was appointed General Secretary and head of the Soviet Union.