On Jan. 15, 2009, all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549 escaped serious injury when pilot Chesley Sullenberger gently ...

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1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 – Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t just lead the USSR—he presided over its collapse. David looks back on a leader who tried to reform the unbreakable and paid the price Police investigate possible link between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev confer during the US-Soviet Summit in July 1991 - Getty Images Who won the Cold War? There was a ...

A Swiss mansion that was the site of the 1985 Geneva Summit that brought together President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is on the auction block, with bids starting at ...

It isn’t often the opportunity comes along to own a home where a high-stakes historical event took place. That’s the story, however, of the 19th-century Villa Fleur d’Eau in Versoix, on the outskirts ...

Summits between heads of state are high-stakes gambles to achieve breakthrough solutions. Typically, they are judged on whether they help resolve an intractable international issue. But sometimes, ...

Stephen Sestanovich is the George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. President Donald Trump must be tired of all the stern exhortations, ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. By Robert D. McFadden The leadership ...