MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state ...

He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow. The USCentral Intel­ligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR – at the heart of which was Russia, by nurturing a CIA agent, Mikhail Gorbachev ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the ... His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.

I am certain that it was a viable option and that most republics would have supported it, but the coup upset this possibility," Gorbachev said. "Even after the coup, when the republics proclaimed ...

Gorbachev resigned after a failed coup in December 1991 that sought his ouster. He had bested the plotters but the economic uncertainty and the devolution of power created a sense of chaos and ...