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MOSCOW (AP) — His emotions have settled with time, and the details of the August 1991 coup attempt are fading. But a decade later, Mikhail Gorbachev s dark brown eyes still flash with contempt when ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hardline communists opposed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms staged a coup in August 1991, but the putsch failed two days later and ultimately hastened the collapse of ...

In this Aug. 19, 1991, file photo, crowds of people surround and climb on tanks which were stopped by the crowd as they drove towards the Red Square area of Moscow, Russia, during a military coup ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - My rented flat had no television or radio, and the blank faces on the bus sputtering into central Moscow betrayed no hint of the news that had broken that Monday morning in August ...

Gorbachev is proud of the role he played in bringing down the Berlin Wall. MOSCOW, Nov. 8, 2009 — -- In June 1987, President Reagan came to the Berlin Wall and make a famous appeal to Soviet ...

Oleg Baklanov, the last member of a failed coup against then USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died aged 89, the head of the Russian space agency said on Wednesday.

Editor’s note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a ...

The author is a writer and a senior fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research The Soviet Union was tottering. Mikhail Gorbachev sought to overcome the crisis by pursuing perestroika ...