Tag: Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Nigeria, and hard choices – By Dakuku Peterside
A significant chapter of global history was closed on 30th August 2022. On that day, an equally substantive champion of reforms passed and bequeathed us a mixed assessment of his contribution to the new world order. Mikhail Gorbachev is that man. He was not alone in this powerful club. His best-known contemporaries were Ronald Regan…
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Tribute: Mikhail Gorbachev: 1931-2022 – By Steve Egbo
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR has died. He was aged 91. Described as “the only Russian leader who ever smiled….” world leaders have paid glowing tributes. A few weeks after Gorbachev came to power, as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan put a call through…
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Former Soviet President, Gorbachev dies aged 91
Former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, who ended the Cold War, is dead. The Central Clinical Hospital reported on Tuesday that Gorbachev died “after a serious and long illness”. He was 91 years old. A more specific cause of death was not immediately clear. Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novo-Dyevitchiye cemetery, next to his…