Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has "exhausted himself" as Russia's leader and that his inability...

When Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stepped down 20 years ago, on Dec. 25, 1991, it ended the 70-year history of the Soviet Union and began...

... elections and Vladimir Putin's ouster. Lebedev, who also owns Britain's Independent and Evening Standard newspapers and with Mikhail Gorbachev has a stake in the opposition Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has been publicly critical of the current government. Writing...

... promote.  Now, the kids are not afraid, and they pick their own heroes. Yes, they have seen oil baron and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky imprisoned on questionable charges and inconvenient opposition journalists beaten or killed. But they have... ... obvious alternative to Putin. In the most benign scenario, Putin himself would evolve. After all, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev managed to change the system that produced him, although you could argue that he did not change it enough. If Putin...

... inspection tour of the main KGB archive in a tightly guarded facility outside Moscow, he came across a hefty dossier on Count Mikhail Tolstoy-Kutuzov, a Russian aristocrat who left Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and worked alongside Wallenberg... ... for an international commission investigating Wallenberg's case to search for clues to his fate amid Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's openness campaign. They quickly found a document on Wallenberg's transfer from one Soviet prison to another, but the...

... proposing changes, he only said they must not tighten the screws or wreak havoc. If Putin abruptly loses power like Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, it wouldn't serve the best interests of the country, Shuvalov warned. Another ranking member of the Russian delegation...

... of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential nausea and led to both the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Soviet Union's demise with Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. Today, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's regime is afflicted with the same terminal disease, despite —...

... dissident Natan Sharansky. He was then sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in 1977 on false charges that he was a U.S. spy. Mikhail Leontyev, host of the "Odnako" program on Channel One, picked up on Putin's cues in his Jan. 17 show , implying... ... and democracy, and he even wrote a book with the suspicious title "Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin." If that were not enough, 20 years ago McFaul worked as a senior adviser to the National Democratic Institute...