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Gorbachev and his family were kept under house arrest in their dacha. [399] The coup plotters publicly announced that Gorbachev was ill and thus Vice President Yanayev would take charge of the country. [400] Yeltsin, now President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, went inside the Moscow White House.
Reports also surfaced that Gorbachev had been placed under house arrest in Crimea. [72] [73] During the final day of her family's exile, Raisa Gorbacheva suffered a minor stroke. [30] At 8:00 am, the troops began to leave Moscow. [33]
Arrest warrant issued for Yeltsin. August 21, 08:39: Russian Parliament Building still free. Some tanks defect to Yeltsin's side. August 21, 09:20: General strike starts in Latvia. August 21, 11:50: Mikhail Gorbachev refuses to return to Moscow as offer behest of the coup leaders. Yeltsin also refuses to travel to Crimea to get Gorbachev back ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials ...
Mikhail Gorbachev was enduringly popular in Germany for enabling the country's reunification after four decades of post-World War II division — and setting the scene for the peaceful collapse of ...
Yanayev had initially been rejected by the Supreme Soviet, but he was finally approved by a second vote due to Gorbachev's insistence, (by a vote of 1,237 for to 563 against), only days after Shevardnadze had resigned from office due to Gorbachev's willingness to give leeway to conservatives. Yanayev said after the vote "I am a Communist to the ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to then-communist-ruled European nations, was saluted Wednesday as a rare leader who changed the ...
Culture Hall is prepared for legislative election in Pereslavl. Legislative elections were held in the Soviet Union on 26 March 1989 to elect members of the Congress of People's Deputies, with run-offs on 2, 9 and 20 April and 14 and 23 May. [1]