Gorbachev, Mikhail
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS1931–
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, to a peasant family in the Stavropol region of Russi...
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Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (born 1931) was a member of the Communist Party who rose through a series of local and regional positions to national prominence. In March 1985 the Politburo of the Soviet...
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Born on March 2, 1931, Mikhail Sereevich Gorbachev is recognized as one of the most intellectual, self-confident, and idealistic man of his time. He is different from the past Soviet Union leaders bec...
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I read Christian Schmidt-Hauer's Gorbachev: Path to Power. Obviously about Gorbachev this book is written as a biography (and is one) about him in the personal and political sense. It was written to s...
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Gorbachev was one of the last leaders that changed the USSR to a better country. He was the one whom liberated the USSR from communism. He had very few achievements and failures. Thus, some people say...
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Both leaders were fully aware of problems at home and abroad and were keen to introduce important changes. They both wanted to introduce reform and new international policies. They had a need to bring...
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Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate cha...
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Budapest (dpa) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on
Wednesday said that a missile shield system the US plans to site in
Poland and Czech Republic was targeted at Russ...
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Moscow (dpa) - The music world was mourning the death of Russian
cellist and human rights campaigner Mstislav Rostropovich, who died
Friday aged 80 after a long struggle wit...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
THE IMPERIAL FAMILY (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Feb. 24)
Many parents com...
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(EDS: RECASTING WITH RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CONFIRMATION, ADDING INFO ON
RUSSIA-JAPAN TIES)
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a reformer and tenacious
survivor of a number of political bat...
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Tributes to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin were paid in
Britain on Monday after news that the 76-year old national figure had
died from apparent heart failure.
British Prime Minist...
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