MOSCOW -- A former member of the Soviet Communist Party's Politburo, Yegor Ligachyov, has become the first ex-top Soviet official to live to the age of 100. Ligachyov was considered in the late 1980s ...
MOSCOW — Grigory Romanov, a Politburo member who was Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief rival to become Soviet leader in the mid-1980s, has died, the Communist Party said Tuesday. He was 85. The party said ...