MOSCOW (AP) — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev ...

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS — Mikhail S.

WASHINGTON — There have been two surreal visitations in Washington that left people quivering with excitement. The first was seven decades ago, when a spaceship landed on the Mall and an alien and a ...