The moment the West’s image of the Soviet Union began to change can be pinpointed with some exactitude: it was December 1984, when Mikhail Gorbachev, then second-in-command at the Kremlin, arrived in ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, visited the Twin Cities on a blustery June day in 1990 at a time when the Berlin Wall had fallen and new hope emerged for better relations between ...

Dave Benett/G80/Getty Arnold Schwarzenegger with Mikhail Gorbachev (right) and his daughter, Irina Virganskaya (left) "There's an old saying, 'Never meet your heroes.' I think that's some of the worst ...

It was billed as “Style Wars” and “Tea and Empathy.” Nancy Reagan, the polished Southern California socialite, and vivacious Raisa Gorbachev, the uniquely style-conscious Soviet First Lady, were ...

Step aside, Paul McCartney. Move over, Alicia Keys. And The Jonas who? The latest megastar on the music scene -- and surely the only one who gets $165,000 (per CD!) -- is Mikhail Gorbachev, former ...

President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev at lower right visits Stanford University June 4, 1990. Behind and to the the left is California U.S. Senator Alan Cranston. Jeffrey May Mikhail ...