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2. Timeline of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. 1991 Soviet coup attempt - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia

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   Gorbachev and his family were kept under house arrest in their dacha. [415] The coup plotters publicly announced that Gorbachev was ill and thus Vice President Yanayev would take charge of the country. [416] Yeltsin, now President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, went inside the Moscow White House.

5. Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies aged 91 -agencies

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   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 ...

6. Gennady Yanayev - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

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8. House arrest - Wikipedia

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   Alexei Nikolaevich and his sister Tatiana Nikolaevna surrounded by guards during their house arrest in Tsarskoye Selo, April 1917. House arrest (also called home confinement, or electronic monitoring) is a legal measure where a person is required to remain at their residence under supervision, typically as an alternative to imprisonment.

9. Tributes paid to ‘courage and integrity’ of Mikhail Gorbachev

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   Mr Gorbachev’s death at the age of 91 has inspired an outpouring of tributes from world leaders. Many made reference to the timing of his death during the worst period of relations between ...