Mikhail Gorbachev - The New Russia

General Assembly

Geneva Office

Millennium Summit (2000)

Secretaries-General see Annan; Ban; Boutros-Ghali; Sachs

Security Council

see also International Criminal Court; Kyoto Protocol; International Labour Organization; UNESCO; UNHCR; UNICEF

Understanding Perestroika (MG)

unemployment

mass

UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)

UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees)

UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund)

Union Could Have Been Saved, The (white paper)

Union of Right Forces

Union of Social Democrats

Union of Sovereign States

United Kingdom

Chequers

MG in Parliament (1984)

see also Aberdeen; Braithwaite; Churchill; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Heath; Hurd; London; Major; Owen; Steele; Thatcher

United Russia Party

exploiting its majority in Duma

shadow/mediocre imitation of CPSU

shameless behaviour by

United Social Democratic Party of Russia

inaugural congress (2001)

joint theory and practice conference (201)

United States

chemical weapons

financial and economic crisis

foreign policy

invitations for MG to speak in

mass protest movements

military spending and budget deficits

mistake that would have immense negative consequences for

obesity sufferers

Putin’s overtures towards

relations with Russia

role in the world

strategic arsenals of Russia and

Yeltsin going to

see also Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; Baker; Bipartisan Commission; Brzezinski; Bush; Cheney; Emory; Harvard; International Herald Tribune; Kennan; Kennedy; King; Kissinger; Lukin; Matlock; New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty; New York; Nixon; Nunn; Obama; Occupy Wall Street; Perot; Perry; Powell; Reagan; Rice; Roosevelt; Scowcroft; Shultz; Stanford; START; Strauss; US National Security Strategy; Vance; Wall Street Journal; Washington; Weinberger

US Embassy (Moscow)

US National Security Strategy

USSR State Bank

Uzbekistan

Vagina, Irina

Valdai Club

Valikova, A. P.

Vance, Cyrus

Vanden Heuvel, Katrina

Vandysheva, Olga

Veber, Alexander

Velikhov, Yevgeny

Venediktov, A. A.

Vermont

Veshnyakov, Alexander

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland

Vidyaevo

Vietnam

Vilnius

Virganskaya, Anastasiya (granddaughter of MG/RG)

Virganskaya, Irina see Gorbacheva-Virganskaya

Virganskaya, Sasha (great-granddaughter of MG/RG)

Virginia

Vladimir (city)

Cathedrals of the Assumption and St Dmitry

Vladimirskaya, Yelena Borisovna

Vladivostok

Vlasov, Yury

Vodolazov, Grigoriy

Voice of Russia (radio network)

Volga region

environmental impact of hydroelectric power stations

not granting autonomous status to Germans

Volgodonsk

Volgograd

laying of wreaths at Mamai Kurgan

MG meeting the voters

Volta River Basin

Voronezh Province

Voznesensky, Andrey

Vysotsky, Vladimir

Wadongo, Evans

wages

backlog of

living

millions of people not paid for months

minimum level of

non-payment of

not received for six months or more

overdue

paid on time

rising

Wałęsa, Lech

Wall Street Journal

War Communism

Washington, DC

Jamestown Foundation Conference (1999)

North Atlantic Council (1999)

Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate- and Shorter-Range Missiles

see also American University

Washington Consensus

Washington Post

Water for the World conference (2002)

weapons of mass destruction

fuelling the urge to acquire

reduction and elimination of

ridding the world of

see also chemical weapons

Weinberger, Caspar

Weizsäcker, Richard von

West Germany

diplomatic relations between USSR and

post-war development of

Willy Brandt’s New Eastern Policy

see also German reunification

White House (Moscow)

assault on

hundreds of people killed in

mass beatings of citizens in approaches to

sealed off by troops and armoured vehicles

Yeltsin standing on tank outside

Wildsteig

Williams, Betty

Williams, Jody

Wilmes, Maria

Workers’ Russia

World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) see Brundtland Commission

World Economic Forum (Davos 2010)

World Political Forum

inaugural conference (Turin 2003)

World Trade Organization

see also Moore; Rocard

Xinhua News Agency

Yabloko Party

Yablonka, Ivan

Yagodkin, Alexander

Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich

Yakovlev, Yegor Vladimirovich

Yanaev, Gennadiy

Yanukovych, Viktor

Yasin, Yevgeny

Yavlinsky, Grigoriy

Years of Difficult Decisions (MG)

Yedinaya Rossiya see United Russia Party

Yefremov, Oleg

Yegides, Petr

Yekaterinburg

Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich

actions seen as attempted coup d’état

appointment of Putin announced by

Belovezha collusion

booze-up in MG’s office to celebrate victory

Chechnya and

comments on the economy

dismissals of government

economic legacy of

grounds for removing from office

instigation of coup d’état

intentions towards MG

MG’s criticism of weaknesses and mistakes of

opinion polls’ approval rating

petition to examine the legality of his decrees

Politburo documents about shooting of Polish prisoners of war

power struggle with Soviet central administration

preparing to remove parliament by force

president for life intention

presidential immunity on retirement

pursuit of primarily political ends

re-election campaign

role in thwarting the 1991 coup

shelling of his own parliament

standing on tank outside White House

START-2 Treaty signing

state of emergency declared by

Supreme Soviet’s unconditional support of

undemocratic nature of his actions

unheard-of privatization stunt

Volga region travels

Western leaders’ unconditional support for

Yeltsin Constitution

Yerevan

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

youth groups see Komsomol; Molodaya Gvardiya; Nashi

Yugoslavia (former)

see also Bosnia-Herzegovina; Croatia; Kosovo; Serbia

Yukos

Yunus, Muhammad

Yurgens, Igor

Zagladin, Vadim

Zaslavskaya, Tatiana

Zasursky, Yasen

Zavarzina, Yekaterina

Zavgaev, Doku

Zbrojovka Brno

Zdravomyslova, Olga

Zhao Ziyang

Zhirinovsky, Vladimir

Zhukov, Georgiy Konstantinovich

ZIL automotive factory

Zorkin, Valeriy

Zuma, Jacob

Zurabov, Mikhail

Zyuganov, Gennadiy

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