Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the southern Russian province of Stravropol Krai. Born to peasant ...

It was Ms. Massie who taught Mr. Reagan the Russian proverb “Doveryai no proveryai” (“Trust but verify”), which he uttered to Mr. Gorbachev when they met in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October ...

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

In one discussion in 1986 — weeks before a summit between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — she brought up the rhyming Russian adage, “Doveryai no proveryai,” or “Trust but ...

He and U.S. President Ronald Reagan joined in successful disarmament talks, and Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) introduced unprecedented freedoms of ...

My friend and former White House colleague Ambassador Frank Lavin has a book coming out in March about his experience in the ...

I asked Gorbachev how he felt about that treaty, in which he played such a large role in bringing about. He talked about the agreement he had reached with Reagan in which they concluded ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet leader and started reforms in his nation, Reagan found someone he could work with, Gates said. “He had a sense of the historic moment to know when it was ...

1985-1988 – Participates in a series of summit talks with US President Ronald Reagan. 1987 – Signs ... March 2, 2011 – On his 80th birthday, Gorbachev is awarded Russia’s highest honor ...