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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Russian politician and statesman who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House Library, 1987. In January 1987, Gorbachev attended a Central Committee plenum where he talked about perestroika and democratization while criticizing widespread corruption. [120] He considered putting a proposal to allow multi-party elections into his speech, but decided against doing so. [121]
On 24 August 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev created the so-called "Committee for the Operational Management of the Soviet Economy" (Комитет по оперативному управлению народным хозяйством СССР), to replace the USSR Cabinet of Ministers [93] headed by Valentin Pavlov, a GKChP member.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has written an op-ed in TIME magazine warning about the dangers of nuclear weapons. Mikhail Gorbachev warns: 'Looks as if the world is preparing for war ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday.
[25] Later that day, at a meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he acknowledged that "It is important for the Soviet Union and other European countries to have guarantees that if the United States maintains its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, there will be no extension of NATO's jurisdiction or military presence by ...
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev wrote the accompanying piece about the Russian president and discusses ... "The language of politicians and the top-level military personnel is becoming ...
Reagan and Gorbachev shake hands after signing the INF Treaty ratification during the Moscow Summit on 1 June 1988. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher played a key role in brokering the negotiations between Reagan and new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 to 1987. [40]