Walesa: The man who sparked change
gulfnews.com
But Mikhail Gorbachev wasn't willing to commit troops to stifle Polish unrest. The last Soviet intervention in Afghanistan hadn't fared too well. Why risk tearing the Soviet Union apart by moving its men out of the bases in Poland onto the satellite ...

Syria: A friend in need is a friend indeed
Al-Arabiya
These repercussions included Iran extending its influence in Iraq and beyond towards the Mediterranean Sea. Third, Moscow witnessed significant changes between 1985 and 2003 and until today as well. Mikhail Gorbachev set the stage for the fragile ...

Friday, June 1
NECN
1990 - U.S. President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sign a pact to cut nuclear missiles and chemical weapons stockpiles. 1992 - Ecologists, diplomats and native people from around the world gather in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, for the ...

Banff's hotel of the rich and famous
Calgary Herald
Later guests included King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Indira Gandhi and her entourage of hundreds, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev, a young Russian secretary of agriculture on a tour of Canada in 1983. The imposing Gorbachev, who went ...