Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Azerbaijan native is already a saavy and outspoken critic of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and he sits on the Azerbaijan Central Committee...
...life of a populist is not an easy one. Fired from the Politburo two years ago, Boris Yeltsin performed the impossible in Soviet politics -- a comeback -- and skated to victory in parliamentary elections last March. Since then, however, Yeltsin has been sniped at by both opponents and supporters of Mikhail Gorbachev for being too brash and publicity hungry in his criticisms about the pace of perestroika. Last week Yeltsin was shot at again, but this time the volley went right through his foot, and the finger on the trigger...
...must support change in the Soviet Union, but you cannot support the man who has now become a dictator," Kasparov said, in frankly-worded remarks about Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
HELSINKI, Finland--Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said yesterday that Moscow will cut its nuclear forces in the Baltic Sea and will destroy four aging submarines and the nuclear missiles they carry...
...specify what conditions would be set for such a withdrawal, but a year ago President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the start of a pullback that he said would result in a pullback that he said would cut Soviet military forces...