Mikhail Gorbachev
- Opinion
- Death
From Warnie to Olivia Newton-John, 2022 has been a year of real tears
We don’t know most of these high-profile individuals but when celebrities die, a sense of grief often resonates.
- Stephen Brook
Latest
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
Russia’s economic nightmare after Gorbachev
Most articles on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev dwell on the political failure of his reform project. Yet Russia’s economic failures in the aftermath were spectacular, and helped pave the way for Putinism.
- Paul Krugman
Hundreds line up to farewell Gorbachev, Putin isn’t one of them
The many Western heads of state will also be absent, kept away by the chasm in east-west relations that has been opened up by the invasion of Ukraine.
- Jim Heintz and Vladimir Isachenkov
- Opinion
- Russia
On the rails with Gorbachev, in the twilight of the Cold War
None of us on that train in the winter of 1988 could have imagined it, but we were travelling, inspired by Gorbachev, towards an end to the 20th century as we had known it.
- Tony Wright
Lukoil boss, whose company condemned Ukraine invasion, found dead after ‘hospital fall’
At least six other Russian businessmen, most with ties to the energy industry, have died suddenly in unclear circumstances in the past few months.
- Rob Harris
- LETTERS
- Letters
Five days’ iso not enough to protect vulnerable
Readers on the reduction in COVID isolation requirements; the Jobs Summit; and the regulation of cosmetic surgeons.
- LETTERS
- Letters
Should youth be putting work before education?
Readers give their views on the push to allow younger teenagers to meet a worker shortfall, the shortage of nurses, the stage 3 tax cuts, and Shaquille O’Neal’s support for a Voice.
- Editorial
- Opinion
Gorbachev shaped history, but his legacy has been undone
The world would be a safer place if Mikhail Gorbachev’s attempts to open up the Russian economy and free its people had ultimately proved more durable.
- The Age's View
- Analysis
- Putin's Russia
Gorbachev: the leader who presided over the end of his own empire
A towering figure beyond his own country, he was less fondly regarded inside Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
- Deborah Snow
Former president of the Soviet Union whose reforms brought end to Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev was a different kind of Russian leader – one with whom Western leaders could do business.
Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/mikhail-gorbachev-4hr