When Gorbachev came to power, he believed that the only way to salvage his country's economy was through resuming relationship with the US. History says he was wrong.

When Gorbachev came to power, he believed that the only way to salvage his country's economy was through resuming relationship with the US. History says he was wrong.

When Gorbachev came to power, he believed that the only way to salvage his country's economy was through resuming relationship with the US. History says he was wrong.

President Putin has said the West is trying to provoke a “bloodbath” in other countries.

To many political pundits, analysts, spiritual men, and religious scholars, Mikhail Gorbachev’s name brings to mind a historic letter the founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini wrote to him in Jan. 1989

“Three Mig-31 aircraft with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were relocated to the Chkalovsk airfield in the Kaliningrad region.”

NATO is a military alliance that came into existence after the second World War. It was meant to counter the influence of the Soviet Union. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it continued to expand. It's been involved in a series of wars since the 1990s.