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unusual facts about Gorbachev



28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The first Plenum of the new CPSU Central Committee was held July 13–14, and with the exception of Gorbachev, a completely new Politburo was elected.

Alexander Yakovlev

Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923–2005), so-called "godfather of glasnost" and ally of Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s

Bad Samaritan

During the second conflict, the Force of July are captured by the Soviet Navy; the Force of July are later rescued by the Outsiders and Mikhail Gorbachev himself returns the stolen treasury plates and orders both teams to leave Russia.

Bal des débutantes

Some notable past participants include Ksénia Gorbachev, Barbara Berlusconi, Tamara and Petra Ecclestone, Vanessa and Victoria Traina, Anna Wallenberg, Princess Fawzia Latifa of Egypt, Karan Singh's granddaughter Adishree Singh, Wan Li's granddaughter Wan BaoBao and I.M. Pei's granddaughter Olivia Pei.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

The Center HMG was launched during an International colloquium organized by Edward J. Nell and Karim Errouaki (who was then the first Director of the Center HMG (2002–2004)) and Alain Chanlat (then Director of CETAI HEC-Montreal), and was held at HEC-Montreal in March 2003.The event was sponsored by HEC-Montreal, the Foundation for a Culture of Peace, and the Gorbachev Foundation of North America.

Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews

Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews was the title of a national march and political rally that was held on December 6, 1987 in Washington, D.C. An estimated 250,000 participants gathered on the National Mall, calling for U.S.S.R. President Gorbachev to extend his policy of Glasnost to Soviet Jews by putting an end to their forced assimilation and allowing their emigration from the Soviet Union.

Georgy Shakhnazarov

Shakhnazarov was staying at a sanatorium close to the presidential dacha at Foros in the Crimea that fateful August 1991, when he helped Gorbachev in his plans for a new Union Treaty to define relations between the republics.

Giancarlo Pallavicini

Giancarlo Pallavicini (Desio, February 12, 1931) is an economist, academic, manager, Italian writer and journalist, former adviser to the Soviet Government at the time of Gorbachev's Perestroika and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.

Gordon Clough

With his fluent Russian he moved back to front-line journalism at the time of the Gorbachev revolution,

Gregory Ciottone

In 2009, while working in conjunction with Mikhail Gorbachev and the Gorbachev Foundation towards improved Disaster Preparedness and healthcare infrastructure in Russia, Ciottone served as a personal envoy from President Gorbachev to the U.S. Governmental Agency the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster

Maryin sent the message further up the chain of command, to Frolyshev, who then called Vladimir Dolgikh, who called Gorbachev and other members of the Politburo.

Jahangir Mamatov

On August 17, 1991, as his protest against the attempted coup in Moscow aimed at opposing Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he decentralised power to the republics, Mamatov went to demonstrate with some of his friends in front of the Parliament building and publicly burned his Party member certificate.

Jemele Hill

In an editorial describing why she could not support the Celtics, Hill wrote: "Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan. Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics."

Malta Conference

Malta Conference (1989), between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the end of the Cold War.

Pavel Palazhchenko

After becoming a long-time associate and aide to Mikhail Gorbachev for several years, Palazhchenko eventually became the head of the International Department of the International Non-governmental Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (or The Gorbachev Foundation), where he also functioned as an analyst, spokesperson, interpreter and translator.

Robert D. English

During 2000 he co-edited My Six Years With Gorbachev: Notes from a Diary with Jack F. Matlock, Jr. and Elizabeth Tucker, which is the account of Anatoly S. Chernyaev's time as an aide to Mikhail Gorbachev.

Russia–South Korea relations

In June 1990, Roh held his first summit with President Gorbachev in San Francisco.

Tear down the wall

Tear down this wall!, a challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall


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