Relations between Japan and Russia are improving, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said at a meeting with Japanese ruling camp official Natsuo Yamaguchi on Thursday. The two nations should work further by keeping up the current momentum, he added. Gorbachev made the remarks as Yamaguchi, leader ...
Russia has refused a Lithuanian bid to question ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev over Moscow's deadly 1991 crackdown on independence protesters in the Baltic state, justice authorities in Vilnius said Tuesday. "Russia rejected a legal assistance request over Gorbachev," the Vilnius county court said in a ...
Barack Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, the scene of the atomic bombing ordered 71 years ago. But over those seven decades, many prominent figures, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Mother Teresa and rock legend Jimmy Page, have paid their ...
The German prisoners of war in Japan fare far better than the Russian ones did 10 years ago, says a high officer of the Army, and that is largely due to the decisions of the Hague Conference to pay their salaries on top of ...
Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev says tensions between the major powers have put the world "on the brink of a new Cold War." He accuses the West, particularly the United States, of giving in to "triumphalism" after the collapse of the communist bloc a ...
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Sunday that the political crisis in Ukraine, which has seen its president driven from the capital after months of protests, stems from its government's failure to act democratically. He spoke a day after demonstrators took over Kiev and seized ...
