Who Won the 1989
Time Person Of The Year

Russians pick best ruler of USSR and pre-Putin Russia
Pravda
Poor ratings of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin can be explained with the fact that people associate only destruction and poverty with them. The era of Mikhail Gorbachev ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The majority of Russians still ...

TV Punch-Up: Lebedev Pleads Not Guilty
Orange UK News
He co-owns 49% of Novaya Gazeta with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He has previously said he believes he is being prosecuted on the orders of the Kremlin because President Vladimir Putin thinks he is supporting the opposition and interfering ...

Why Alcohol May Doom Putin
CounterPunch
Mikhail Gorbachev, in 1985, increased controls on alcohol consumption and imposed a partial prohibition through a massive anti-alcohol campaign. That campaign, which included severe penalties against public drunkenness and alcohol consumption, ...

Today In History
South China Morning Post
1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. 1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of Russia, largest of Soviet Union's 15 ...