Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, …

Oct 29, 2009 · Ex-president of the Soviet Union, Founder of Green Cross International & of THE Climate Change Task Force (CCTF)

Mar 10, 2015 · Perestroika (Russian for "restructuring") refers to a series of political and economic reforms meant to kickstart the stagnant 1980s economy of the Soviet Union, devised by President Mikhail ...

Nov 06, 2014 · The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the ...

Mikhaïl Gorbatchev Михаил Горбачёв Mikhaïl Gorbatchev en 1986. Fonctions Président de l'URSS 15 mars 1990 – 25 décembre 1991 (1 an, 9 mois et 10 jours) Premier ministre Valentin Pavlov Ivan Silaïev Président du Conseil Nikolaï Ryjkov Prédécesseur Poste créé Lui-même (président du Soviet suprême) Successeur Guennadi Ianaïev (usurpateur, 1991) Poste …

Mar 16, 2022 · Gorbachev's visit to the U.S. was well-received. At a stop in California, 4,000 people paid $40 for the privilege of hearing the former Soviet Union leader speak, according to the New York Times, putting Gorbachev's team on its way toward raising $3 million of the estimated startup costs needed to create a foundation.Mikhail Gorbachev's engagement in Manhattan on …

Feb 09, 1990 · This Gorbachev Foundation record of the Soviet leader’s meeting with James Baker on February 9, 1990, has been public and available for researchers at the Foundation since as early as 1996, but it was not published in English until 2010 when the Masterpieces of History volume by the present authors came out from Central European University Press. . The …

Nov 13, 2009 · In an event steeped in symbolism, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reviews the Cold War in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri—the site of Winston Churchill’s “Iron ...

Oct 03, 2020 · What does Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (89) actually do? The man to whom the Germans largely owe their political unity has almost completely disappeared from the public eye. The 89-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate lives secluded in a dacha in a suburb of Moscow. It is said that his health is not particularly good.