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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.
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, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday. Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader ...
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 ...
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.