Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east.
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Putin is planning to bring a mass tourism industry to Russia’s wild far east.
A Russian peacekeeper guards the Lachin corridor connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
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Renewed fighting in the South Caucasus has some wondering, “Where are the great powers?”
Pavlovsky as dissident at a rally to commemorate the murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
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Pavlovsky became the ultimate insider – until he fell out with the boss he had helped make all-powerful.
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Russia is walking away from the last remaining treaty designed to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo during his exile in Botswana.
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A historian counters the popular view that the 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall set in motion talks to end apartheid. The process was unstoppable by then.
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The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union brought tributes, largely from the west. But his real legacy has been misunderstood.
President Cyril Ramaphosa came to power promising to revitalise the economy and end corruption.
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Ramaphosa’s presidency has been dogged by several controversies related to his business interests.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
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For over a decade, Putin has been systematically destroying Gorbachev’s historic achievements.
‘Run for your lives’: Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russian troops ahead of Ukraine’s southern offensive.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Mikhail Gorbachev in 2007 with the editor of independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, holding a book about the murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
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Glasnost was hailed as one of the Soviet leader’s great achievements. But it was a fragile freedom and soon overturned by Vladimir Putin.
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Gorbachev failed in his two main aims: to hold togteher a reformed Soviet Union and cement its place in a new world order.
Warm working relationship: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The INF treaty signed by Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan prohibited medium-range missiles.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco in June 1990.
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While Mikhail Gorbachev was feted in the West — he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 — he was widely despised in Russia by those both mourning and celebrating the end of Soviet power.
Mikhail Gorbachev at his news conference following a summit with US President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1986.
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External changes, including the end of the Cold War, helped lead to the ending of apartheid. Gorbachev played a major role in that process.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev played a significant role in bringing down the wall between eastern and western Europe.
Liberator, failed reformer or architect of Soviet demise?
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Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. A historian of the Soviet era assesses his impact and the consequences of his failed attempts to reform state socialism.
Mikhail Gorbachev addresses American business executives in 1990.
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Monica Attard witnessed the death throes of the USSR – and the birth of a brave new world – as the ABC’s Russia foreign correspondent. In 2022, a return to an Orwellian regime looms.
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Like other tragic reformers in history, Gorbachev’s chief legacy is to remind us about what might have been, rather than what subsequently transpired.
MAD: launch of the Sarmat, or ‘Satan 2’ ICBM on April 20, 2022.
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Russia is raising the stakes with upgraded ballistic missiles and blood-curdling threats from the Kremlin