Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, forged arms reduction agreements with the United States and alliances with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had separated Europe since World War II and bring about the reunification of Germany. “Mikhail Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Interfax news agency quoted the Central Clinical Hospital of Russia as saying in a statement. Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, who died in 1999, the Tass news agency reported, citing a source familiar with the family’s wishes. Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan exchange pens during the signing ceremony for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House on December 8, 1987. Gorbachev’s translator Pavel Palazchenko stands in the middle. (Bob Daugherty/The Associated Press) When pro-democracy protests swept the Soviet bloc nations of communist Eastern Europe in 1989, he refrained from using violence – unlike previous Kremlin leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. But the protests fueled aspirations for autonomy in the Soviet Union’s 15 republics, which disintegrated over the next two years in chaotic fashion. Gorbachev fought in vain to prevent this collapse. When he became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, aged just 54, he had set out to revitalize the system by introducing limited political and economic freedoms, but his reforms got out of hand. WATCHES | CBC talks to Gorbachev 2 decades after the end of the Cold War:
Interview: Mikhail Gorbachev
20 years after the end of the Cold War, Alexandra Szacka talks to former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev The policy of “glasnost” – freedom of speech – allowed for previously unthinkable criticism of party and state, but also emboldened nationalists who began pushing for independence in the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and elsewhere. Many Russians never forgave Gorbachev for the upheaval his reforms unleashed, seeing the subsequent plunge in their living standards as too high a price to pay for democracy. After visiting Gorbachev in hospital on June 30, liberal economist Ruslan Grinberg told the armed forces news agency Zvezda: “He gave us all the freedom — but we don’t know what to do with it.”
title: “Mikhail Gorbachev The Soviet Leader Who Ended The Cold War Has Died Reports Say Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-06” author: “Judy Shaffner”
Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, forged arms reduction agreements with the United States and alliances with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had separated Europe since World War II and bring about the reunification of Germany. “Mikhail Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Interfax news agency quoted the Central Clinical Hospital of Russia as saying in a statement. Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, who died in 1999, the Tass news agency reported, citing a source familiar with the family’s wishes. Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan exchange pens during the signing ceremony for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House on December 8, 1987. Gorbachev’s translator Pavel Palazchenko stands in the middle. (Bob Daugherty/The Associated Press) When pro-democracy protests swept the Soviet bloc nations of communist Eastern Europe in 1989, he refrained from using violence – unlike previous Kremlin leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. But the protests fueled aspirations for autonomy in the Soviet Union’s 15 republics, which disintegrated over the next two years in chaotic fashion. Gorbachev fought in vain to prevent this collapse. When he became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, aged just 54, he had set out to revitalize the system by introducing limited political and economic freedoms, but his reforms got out of hand. WATCHES | CBC talks to Gorbachev 2 decades after the end of the Cold War:
Interview: Mikhail Gorbachev
20 years after the end of the Cold War, Alexandra Szacka talks to former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev The policy of “glasnost” – freedom of speech – allowed for previously unthinkable criticism of party and state, but also emboldened nationalists who began pushing for independence in the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and elsewhere. Many Russians never forgave Gorbachev for the upheaval his reforms unleashed, seeing the subsequent plunge in their living standards as too high a price to pay for democracy. After visiting Gorbachev in hospital on June 30, liberal economist Ruslan Grinberg told the armed forces news agency Zvezda: “He gave us all the freedom — but we don’t know what to do with it.”
title: “Mikhail Gorbachev The Soviet Leader Who Ended The Cold War Has Died Reports Say Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-19” author: “Manuel Wallace”
Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, forged arms reduction agreements with the United States and alliances with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had separated Europe since World War II and bring about the reunification of Germany. “Mikhail Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Interfax news agency quoted the Central Clinical Hospital of Russia as saying in a statement. Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, who died in 1999, the Tass news agency reported, citing a source familiar with the family’s wishes. Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan exchange pens during the signing ceremony for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House on December 8, 1987. Gorbachev’s translator Pavel Palazchenko stands in the middle. (Bob Daugherty/The Associated Press) When pro-democracy protests swept the Soviet bloc nations of communist Eastern Europe in 1989, he refrained from using violence – unlike previous Kremlin leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. But the protests fueled aspirations for autonomy in the Soviet Union’s 15 republics, which disintegrated over the next two years in chaotic fashion. Gorbachev fought in vain to prevent this collapse. When he became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, aged just 54, he had set out to revitalize the system by introducing limited political and economic freedoms, but his reforms got out of hand. WATCHES | CBC talks to Gorbachev 2 decades after the end of the Cold War:
Interview: Mikhail Gorbachev
20 years after the end of the Cold War, Alexandra Szacka talks to former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev The policy of “glasnost” – freedom of speech – allowed for previously unthinkable criticism of party and state, but also emboldened nationalists who began pushing for independence in the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and elsewhere. Many Russians never forgave Gorbachev for the upheaval his reforms unleashed, seeing the subsequent plunge in their living standards as too high a price to pay for democracy. After visiting Gorbachev in hospital on June 30, liberal economist Ruslan Grinberg told the armed forces news agency Zvezda: “He gave us all the freedom — but we don’t know what to do with it.”
title: “Mikhail Gorbachev The Soviet Leader Who Ended The Cold War Has Died Reports Say Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-18” author: “Orlando Hairston”
Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, forged arms reduction agreements with the United States and alliances with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had separated Europe since World War II and bring about the reunification of Germany. “Mikhail Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Interfax news agency quoted the Central Clinical Hospital of Russia as saying in a statement. Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, who died in 1999, the Tass news agency reported, citing a source familiar with the family’s wishes. Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan exchange pens during the signing ceremony for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House on December 8, 1987. Gorbachev’s translator Pavel Palazchenko stands in the middle. (Bob Daugherty/The Associated Press) When pro-democracy protests swept the Soviet bloc nations of communist Eastern Europe in 1989, he refrained from using violence – unlike previous Kremlin leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. But the protests fueled aspirations for autonomy in the Soviet Union’s 15 republics, which disintegrated over the next two years in chaotic fashion. Gorbachev fought in vain to prevent this collapse. When he became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, aged just 54, he had set out to revitalize the system by introducing limited political and economic freedoms, but his reforms got out of hand. WATCHES | CBC talks to Gorbachev 2 decades after the end of the Cold War:
Interview: Mikhail Gorbachev
20 years after the end of the Cold War, Alexandra Szacka talks to former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev The policy of “glasnost” – freedom of speech – allowed for previously unthinkable criticism of party and state, but also emboldened nationalists who began pushing for independence in the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and elsewhere. Many Russians never forgave Gorbachev for the upheaval his reforms unleashed, seeing the subsequent plunge in their living standards as too high a price to pay for democracy. After visiting Gorbachev in hospital on June 30, liberal economist Ruslan Grinberg told the armed forces news agency Zvezda: “He gave us all the freedom — but we don’t know what to do with it.”
