Alexander Yakovlev, who advised Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on glasnost and perestroika, was buried this week. After the Soviet Union collapsed he devoted himself to documenting Soviet repression.

In his book A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia, published in English in 2002, Alexander Yakovlev set about exposing the whole Leninist/Stalinist "experiment" as a crime against humanity. As a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Yakovlev, a former United Nations procurement officer who was convicted of fraud during the oil-for-food scandal, has gotten a brusque thumbs-down after he demanded that the U.N.

A federal judge sentenced a Russian emigre to 30 years in prison today after he was convicted of stealing the identities of two people he was accused of killing. Dmitriy Yakovlev was convicted in ...

Alexander Yakovlev, who has died in Moscow aged 81, was the most powerful - and most contradictory - intellectual in the top echelons of the Soviet Communist party in its final decade. A one-time ...