Tag: Gorbachev
How great personalities shape history
Bonn Great men make history, and sometimes great women too. In political reporting, “strong leaders” such as China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin or Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dominate…
Mikhail Gorbachev is dead
Berlin Mikhail Gorbachev’s death is symbolic: he is stepping off the world stage at a time when the world is once again radically changing—starting from his native Russia and going…
Never again war – the forgotten saying of Mikhail Gorbachev
the man who abolished the KGB agent Vladimir Putin, but enabled him again as agent leader ten years later, is dead: Mikhail Gorbachev. In the 1980s in the Soviet Union,…
Soviet Union: Mikhail Gorbachev is dead
Mikhail Gorbachev The former Soviet President has died. (Photo: dpa) Moscow According to Russian agencies, the Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev is…