Who was an adivisor to the eighth leader of the Soviet Union who died in 2006?
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Vadim Zagladin Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin (June 23, 1927 - November 17, 2006), Soviet politician and ideologist, was one of the leading theoreticians of Perestroika. Collaborator and adviser to Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, he was one of the Soviet politicians closest to Western Europe. Personal friend of François Mitterrand, Willy Brandt and Giorgio Napolitano, Zagladin was the theorist of a reformed communism, very close to European social democracy.
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Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, ( ; Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв ; ] ; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the from 1989 to 1990, and as Soviet Union]] from 1990 to 1991).
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Vladimir Arkhipov Vladimir Mikhailovich Arkhipov (Russian: Владимир Миха́йлович Архи́пов; 1 June 1933 – 27 October 2004) was a Soviet army general and politician.
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Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt (in Russian Ян Анвельт, also known by the pseudonyms Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak or Н. Альтъ; 18 April 1884 – 11 December 1937), was a Soviet revolutionary, leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, the first Premier of Soviet Estonia, and the Chairman of the Council of The Commune of the Working People of Estonia (Estonian "Eesti Töörahva Kommuun"). Imprisoned during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937, he died from the injuries sustained during a beating by Aleksandr Langfang while in NKVD custody.
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Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died aged 75 after suffering a heart attack following years of serious ailments. His death was officially acknowledged on 11 November simultaneously by Soviet radio and television. After five days of national mourning, Brezhnev was given a state funeral and then buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's eventual successor as general secretary, was chairman of the committee in charge of managing Brezhnev's funeral, held on 15 November 1982, five days after his death.
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Sergey Akhromeyev Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev (Russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ахроме́ев ; May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991) was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983).
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Yegor Yakovlev Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Яковлев, Егор Владимирович ; 14 March 1930 – 18 September 2005) was one of the founders of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin's policy of "glasnost", and one of the most respected Russian journalists.
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Dmitri Shepilov Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov (Russian: Дми́трий Трофи́мович Шепи́лов , "Dmitrij Trofimovič Šepilov"; 5 November [O.S. 23 October] 1905 – 8 August 1995) was a Soviet politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs who joined the abortive plot to oust Nikita Khrushchev from power in 1957.
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Sydir Kovpak Sydir Artemovych Kovpak (Ukrainian: Сидір Артемович Ковпак ; Russian: Си́дор Арте́мьевич Ковпа́к, "Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak" ), (June 7, 1887December 11, 1967) was a prominent Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine.
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Nikolay Mikhaylovich Kharlamov Nikolay Mikhaylovich Kharlamov (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Харла́мов ; 6 (19) December 1905 – 9 April 1983) was a Soviet military leader and admiral.
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Aleksandr Aksyonov (politician) Aleksandr Nikiforovich Aksyonov (Russian: Александр Никифорович Аксёнов , Belarusian: Аляксандр Аксёнаў , "Aleksandr Aksionau"; 9 October 1924 – 8 September 2009) was a Soviet politician and diplomat from Belarus. Aksyonov served as the Prime Minister of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 11 December 1978, until 8 July 1983. He later became the Soviet Ambassador to Poland from 1983-86.
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Nikolay Travkin Nikolay Ilyich Travkin (Russian: Николай Ильич Травкин ) (born 19 March 1946) is a Russian and former Soviet politician, former member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, member of State Duma and member of the Government of the Russian Federation (1994-1996).
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Mikhail Khvatkov Mikhail Petrovich Khvatkov (Russian: Михаил Петрович Хватков ; 24 November 1925 – 25 June 1944) was a Red Army Efreitor and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Khvatkov was posthumously awarded the title for his actions in the Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive, where he ferried troops and equipment across the Western Dvina. He was killed while crossing the river.
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Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia ("Сергей Александрович"; May 11, 1857 – February 17, 1905) was the fifth son and seventh child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. He was an influential figure during the reigns of his brother Emperor Alexander III of Russia and his nephew Emperor Nicholas II, who was also his brother in law through Sergei's marriage to Elizabeth the sister of Tsarina Alexandra.
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Boris Snetkov Boris Vasilievich Snetkov (Russian: Борис Васильевич Снетков ; 27 February 1925 – 18 September 2006) was a Soviet Army and briefly Russian Ground Forces Army General.
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Ella Polyakova Ella Mikhaylovna Polyakova (Russian: Элла Михайловна Полякова ; born 7 February 1941) is a Russian human rights activist, a member of President Vladimir Putin's . She is also a leader of non-governmental organization Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg. She is a laureate of Galina Starovoitova Peace Prize (1999), (2004); in 2005 she was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
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Lidiya Ivanova (journalist) Lidiya Mikhailovna Ivanova (Russian: Лидия Михайловна Иванова ; April 7, 1936, Moscow – November 7, 2007, Moscow) was a Russian print and television journalist, television announcer and writer. She died of complications from diabetes on November 7, 2007.
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2006 Riga summit The 2006 Riga summit or the 19th NATO Summit was a NATO summit held in the Olympic Sports Centre, Riga, Latvia from 28 to 29 November 2006. The most important topics discussed were the War in Afghanistan and the future role and borders of the alliance. Further, the summit focused on the alliance's continued transformation, taking stock of what has been accomplished since the 2002 Prague Summit. NATO also committed itself to extend further membership invitations in the upcoming 2008 Bucharest Summit. This summit was the first NATO summit held on territory of a former USSR republic.
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Adil Shayakhmetov Adil Shayakhmetuly Shayakhmetov (; born 20 January 1956) was the head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (NSC) from December 2009 to August 2010.
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Mikhail Balakin Mikhail Dmitrievich Balakin (Russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Балакин, born April 20, 1961) is a Russian billionaire, and chairman of the SU-155 group of companies.
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Yuri Levitan Yuri Borisovich Levitan (Russian: Юрий Борисович Левитан , 2 October 1914 – 4 August 1983) was the primary Soviet radio announcer during and after World War II. He announced on Radio Moscow all major international events in the 1940s–60s including the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, the surrender of Germany on 9 May 1945, the death of Joseph Stalin, and the first manned spaceflight in 1961.
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Mikhail Pervukhin Mikhail Georgievich Pervukhin (Russian: Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Перву́хин ; 14 October 1904 – 22 July 1978) was a Soviet official during the Stalin Era, Khrushchev Era and the early Brezhnev Era. He served as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice-Premier of the Soviet Union, from 1955 to 1957.