Jill Dougherty, who covered Raisa Gorbacheva’s funeral in 1999, writes how Raisa’s marriage to husband Mikhail Gorbachev (which began in 1953, the same year Stalin died) was a transformative ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mikhail Gorbachev, who passed away at age 91, was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. In that time he sought to reform it under the mantras of ‘Glasnost ...