In 1987, President Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin Wall.
In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow following the collapse of a hardliners' coup.
In 1991, President Bush sent a personal message to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, urging a stronger effort to conclude arms control talks.
It is supported, in part, by an endowment from Mikhail Gorbachev's Nobel prize money.
Codevilla quotes former Soviet ruler Mikhail Gorbachev's retelling of a conversation he reportedly had with the vice president Bush about then president Ronald Reagan.
Even without the fall of the Berlin Wall, and under Mikhail Gorbachev's new management, the Soviet Union would have struggled in vain (Russia struggles still) to adapt this behemoth to the information age and the microchip.
Most Moldovans gave the idea their approval, but the turnout was so low that it may be hard for Mr Lucinschi, who was once a member of Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Politburo, to have his way constitutionally.
Mikhail Gorbachev's proposed All-Union Treaty -- which is supposed to be the primary focus of the current session of the Congress of People's Deputies -- ostensibly redefines the relationship between the central government in Moscow and the increasingly restive Soviet republics.
In the four years of Mikhail Gorbachev's rule (including in recent months), there have been a number of features of Soviet foreign and defense policy that are difficult to reconcile with the optimistic Western paradigm for explaining Gorbachev's rule and future Soviet behavior.
The Center for Security Policy believes that, in light of the latest, powerful evidence of Mikhail Gorbachev's desire to preserve the power of the traditional central authorities in the USSR and his willingness to yield on this score only in the face of sustained pressure, it would be a grievous mistake for the West to come to his rescue.
And in a dramatic reversal, in 1990 President Mikhail Gorbachev reinstated the couple's citizenship, and Rostropovich triumphantly returned to his homeland on tour with the NSO, where he was greeted enthusiastically at the Moscow Conservatory.
The Center for Security Policy today warned that the Bush Administration's twin preoccupations with helping Mikhail Gorbachev and securing cosmetic Soviet support for the international campaign against Saddam Hussein is likely to spell double trouble for the United States.
It was only after Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's new leader, summoned Mr Yeltsin to Moscow in 1985 that he began to differentiate himself from dozens of other senior party apparatchiks.
President Mikhail Gorbachev has no doubt been impressed by China's success in carrying out domestic economic liberalization and foreign trade reforms as well as establishing workable terms of agreement with the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) .
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Soviet-era President Mikhail Gorbachev and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair are all expected to attend, he added.
As President Bush prepares to meet Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki on 9 September, the question of Moscow's true intentions in the Persian Gulf crisis is moving to the forefront of the policy debate.
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President Bush will be under greater pressure to surrender American freedom of action on missile defense there than any U.S. leader since Ronald Reagan, who was tempted to do so by Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik two decades ago.
Yesterday, President George Bush held his hastily arranged mini-summit with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki, Finland -- a meeting whose intended purpose was to display U.S.-Soviet solidarity in the face of Iraqi aggression.
After all, Talbott has with his pronouncements repeated a grievous error made by the Bush Administration concerning Mikhail Gorbachev: A Kremlin leader reputed to be committed to reform is made the determinant of U.S. policy toward Russia (and, for that matter, its neighbors and former satellites).
The U.S. is signaling -- whether wittingly or not -- its acceptance of the recentralizing policies of Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Nor is it surprising that Russia's best-selling newspaper is still the doggedly unpolemical weekly Argumenti i Fakti, which became prominent under Mikhail Gorbachev, and once had a world-record circulation touching 34m.
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