On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.
A Russia-like crackdown has jailed dozens in Georgia, with human rights groups sounding the alarm
As it sought to cement its grip on power, Georgian Dream has cracked down on freedom of assembly and expression in what the ...
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Soviet Union could have survived as Union of Sovereign States — Gorbachev
MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the Soviet authorities had underestimated the scale of inter-ethnic problems in the Soviet Union ...
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A union of pro-Western opposition parties is set to win a narrow majority in Georgia's parliamentary elections, amid growing concerns among political experts that the ruling ...
amid growing concerns among political experts that the ruling party is drifting towards Russia. The union of four opposition alliances received a combined 51.9 percent of the vote, with the Ruling ...