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Mikhail Gorbachev
In this Sept. 9, 1990 file photo US President George H. W. Bush shakes hands with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the conclusion of their joint news conference ending the one day summit in Helsinki, Finland (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shin, file)
December 1, 2018, 2:35 pm
Last Soviet leader lauds Bush for political abilities and character
Gorbachev sends ‘deep condolences’ to late president’s family, while one of his aides says Bush ‘always took balanced approach’ as the two worked to end Cold War
By AP
In this Aug. 24, 1992, file photo, President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush walk with their dog Millie across the South Lawn as they return to the White House (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)
December 1, 2018, 12:38 pm
Presidents, world leaders praise former US president George H.W. Bush
Politicians and former administration members remember the departed American leader as honorable, patriotic and unerringly decent
By AP
US President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, on October 22, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)
October 23, 2018, 7:48 am
Trump: US will build nuclear arsenal until Russia, China ‘come to their senses’
President’s warning comes after announcement he intends to jettison atomic treaty — a step Moscow cautions would be a major blow to global security
By Maggy DONALDSON and Anna SMOLCHENKO
American Jews protest against Soviet Jewish policies during a demonstration in Washington, DC. (Photo by © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images, JTA)
December 7, 2017, 4:34 am
Natan Sharansky recalls when 250,000 Jews rallied for Soviet Jewry 30 years ago
Jewish Agency head speaks about the DC march’s enduring resonance and why he wasn’t sure, a day before, that it would happen
By Ben Sales
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference during a defense ministers meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on February 5, 2015. (AFP Photo/John Thys)
October 6, 2017, 6:29 pm
NATO, Kremlin defend nuclear deterrence after ICAN Nobel win
Calling for ‘verifiable and balanced reduction of nuclear weapons,’ NATO chief warns full disarmament approach irresponsible in light of global security ‘realities’
By AFP and AP
A sketch allegedly featuring the German StG44 rifle at a fragment of the newly unveiled monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, in downtown Moscow on September 22, 2017. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
September 23, 2017, 4:13 am
Red faces as Russia’s Kalashnikov monument shows Nazi gun
Erroneous drawing on statue was of an StG44 — for Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle), a name reputedly conferred by Hitler himself
By AFP
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., right, and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, left, talk in Washington, June 9, 2016. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
October 20, 2016, 9:18 am
Lawmakers: Russia’s violation of nuke treaty has ‘worsened’
Two Republican congressmen call on Obama to act amid concerns over Moscow’s testing of banned cruise missile systems
By Deb Riechmann
FILE - In this Aug. 19, 1991 file photo, crowds of people surround and climb on tanks which were stopped by the crowd as they drove towards the Red Square area of Moscow, Russia, during a military coup after the announced ousting of Mikhail Gorbachev from power. (AP/Boris Yurchenko, file)
August 20, 2016, 1:20 am
Russia (barely) marks 25th years since failed Soviet coup
On August 19, 1991, hard-line Communist leaders seized power from President Gorbachev, leading thousands to take to the streets in protest
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
In this Feb. 28, 2011 file photo, former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
June 26, 2015, 2:41 pm
Former Russian PM Yevgeny Primakov dies at 85
Middle East expert, who reportedly had Jewish roots, served as foreign minister, Iraq envoy and parliament leader
By AP and TOI staff
Italian movie director Bernardo Bertolucci (seated) with Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino (left) after he received the Peace Summit Award from Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (2nd left) and Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Tawakkol Karman (right) at the end of the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome, December 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Tiziana Fabi)
December 14, 2014, 9:37 pm
Nobel peace winners fear ‘new, more dangerous Cold War’
Committee highlights Israeli-Arab conflict, religious extremism among host of issues hindering stability
By AFP
Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas greet each others at the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall in 2014. (Photo credit: AP/dpa/Jens Kalaene)
November 8, 2014, 5:53 pm
Gorbachev warns world ‘on brink of new Cold War’
Ex-Soviet leader blames Western ‘triumphalism’ for inability to resolve conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Middle East, and now Ukraine
By AP
Mikhail Gorbachev during the German premiere of his book "All in good time. My Life," at the Berliner Ensemble, March, 2013. (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, SpreeTom)
October 10, 2014, 10:17 am
Gorbachev hospitalized, ‘determined to fight for life’
Former Soviet Union leader, 83, says his health is deteriorating, does not specify where or why he was admitted for treatment
By AFP
Shimon Peres at his Jerusalem residence (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 17, 2013, 2:57 pm
Infographic highlights participants at Presidential Conference
5,000 people scheduled to attend Peres’s annual three-day meet of top world leaders and innovators
By TOI staff
President Shimon Peres. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
June 10, 2013, 1:32 pm
5th Presidential Conference to open in Jerusalem
Tony Blair, Barbra Streisand, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev among key guests
By Aaron Kalman
Former US president Bill Clinton (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
June 2, 2013, 1:21 pm
Peres Academic Center pays Bill Clinton $500,000 for gala event
Organizers backtrack after asking guests at Peres dinner to pay $800 entrance fee to hear former president
By Aaron Kalman
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