Valentin Pavlov, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, died Sunday. He was 66. Mr. Pavlov, who died after a long illness, began ...

After five years of flirting with democracy and free market, the Kremlin seems to have decided those concepts cannot be transplanted to the Soviet Union in their Western form. Recently, ideologists ...

MOSCOW — In a dramatic move to shore up the enfeebled ruble and undercut the shadow economy, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev last night declared 50-ruble and 100-ruble bank notes invalid as of ...

Valentin S. Pavlov, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died, Russian news reports said Monday. He was 66. Pavlov died ...

After a failed attempt last year, the Soviet Union appears ready to raise prices sharply on many goods and to end wasteful subsidies. Does this dramatic step mean that Mikhail Gorbachev, product of ...

Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov called on Monday for “old-style coercion” to impose order on the collapsing Soviet economy. The prime minister indicated that the government intends to crack down ...

MOSCOW -- Valentin Pavlov, 66, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, died here March 30. The cause of death was not reported. Mr.