Image via Wikipedia Tri-City Herald In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judic...

MOSCOW, Dec. 22 -- In late August, one of Russia's leading opposition figures addressed a small demonstration in downtown Moscow and laid into Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, comparing his rollback of democratic reforms to the attempted coup by Communist Party hard-liners in the last days of the......

MOSCOW, Dec. 22 -- In late August, one of Russia's leading opposition figures addressed a small demonstration in downtown Moscow and laid into Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, comparing his rollback of democratic reforms to the attempted coup by Communist Party hard-liners in the last days of the......

MOSCOW, Dec. 19 -- Russia accused the United States on Friday of trying to weaken a landmark nuclear arms-control pact set to expire next year by removing limits on long-range missiles and bombers and demanding instead that a new agreement cover only warheads....

Sen. John McCain stepped up his assault on Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials at a rally in Miami yesterday, criticizing Obama's willingness to talk to Cuban President Ra¿l Castro and other hostile foreign leaders without preconditions. But McCain's argument was undercut when a 2006.....

If they had a reality show for international politicians called "Biggest Loser" the most popular nominee for the title would be Mikhail Gorbachev, the man that lost his whole country, not merely an election. Yet, every once in a while and for some untenable reason, this communist loser is ...

Jeff Jacoby had a fine critique in yesterday's Globe of Obama's speech. But the most astounding news of this day either did not register on the Globe's news radar or could not pass through its secular liberal editors. Britain's Telegraph reported yesterday: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist lead...