MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state ...

The 50-year-old general seized power in the oil-producing Central African country in an August 2023 coup against his distant cousin President Ali Bongo, one of eight successful putsches in West ...

Former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky explains how, during the 1991 coup attempt, a KGB general would probably have arrived at Mikhail Gorbachev's Black Sea resort to organise a peaceful change of ...