6 By the time Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in March 1985, he had been a Politburo member since 1979 and had already earned a reputation with some Western observers as a reform-minded politician. He ...

President Vladimir Putin promoted influential former bodyguard Alexei Dyumin to Russia’s modern-day politburo, along with a new generation of officials tasked with the functioning of wartime ...

President Vladimir Putin promoted influential former bodyguard Alexei Dyumin to Russia's modern-day politburo on Monday (30 September), along with a new generation of officials tasked with the ...

The alleged body double of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been placed in a bunker, according to the same Telegram ...