Uncovering Europe It's 30 years since the failed coup to oust Soviet leader Gorbachev The world held its breath 30 years ago when a group of senior Communist officials attempted to oust Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and flooded Moscow with tanks. The August coup collapsed after just three days and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union. 19/08/2021
Russia Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, turns 90 in quarantine Gorbachev, who is widely credited with ending the Cold War, was very popular in the West, but a much more polarising figure within Russia. 02/03/2021
Germany German reunification: Thirty years on, is the job done? Less than a year after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany was a united country again. 03/10/2020
Russia Twenty five years ago the USSR collapsed It’s 1991 and President Mikhail Gorbachev has brought in Perestroika, a set of reforms to the Soviet system but he’s still trying to keep Communism alive. 18/08/2016
world news How the fall of the Berlin Wall was seen in Russia “Mr Gorbachev, open this gate…” This famous invitation from US President Ronald Reagan was extended beside the Berlin Wall in June 1987, appealing 03/11/2014
World Gorbachev reflects on course of modern Russia You might think 20 years after the demise of the Soviet Union the then-leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, would surely be relegated to the cast of political 08/03/2012
World Gorbachev urges Putin to usher in reforms Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin will have to make democratic reforms in the face of opposition 08/03/2012
