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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...
Russian TV Likens Trump's America to Late-Stage USSR: 'Inevitable Collapse'
Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91
Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader and father of Perestroika, has died at 91
The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91
MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR.PersonalBirth date: March 2, 1931Death date: August ...
Suzanne Massie, ‘Reagan’s Window on the Soviet Union,’ Dies at 94
An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...
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Deseret News archives: Mighty USSR formed on this date in 1922
Interestingly, all save Gorbachev were alive when the USSR was formed. Gorbachev was instrumental in the dissolution of the union of nations. There is little mention of the USSR forming in the ...
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Fall of the USSR, 30 years later
effectively terminating the authority of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who stepped down on Dec. 25, 1991, with the hammer and sickle flag lowered over the Kremlin. Stanislav Shushkevich ...
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Gorbachev leaves behind legacy of mutual respect for humankind
On Feb. 26, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation,” Gorbachev’s foundation in Moscow issued a statement calling for an immediate suspension ...
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Ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev calls for immediate Putin-Trump summit
MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday that he deemed it necessary to immediately start preparations for a Russian-US summit. The architect of the former ...
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.