Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, he called for an 'early cessation of hostilities'. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, died on Tuesday , Russian news agencies cited hospital staff as saying. He was 91.
First public remarks on the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster, delivered on Russian television, May 14, 1986, 18 days after the explosion "At some point, the country began to lose momentum, difficulties and unresolved problems started to pile up, and there appeared elements of stagnation and other phenomena alien to socialism. All this badly affected the economy and social, cultural and intellectual life ...
"For everyone, and above all for our two great powers, the treaty whose text is on this table offers a big chance, at last, to get onto the road leading away from the threat of catastrophe. "First of all, I am very deeply moved, as a man, by this decision, and I shall not hide it. But I accept this ... not in the personal sense, but as an acknowledgement of the great value and the enormous meaning of the important mission we call perestroika for the fate of the whole world.""Fate had decided that when I became head of state, it was already obvious that there was something wrong in this country.
"For this reason, I never regretted that I did not use my position as General Secretary merely to 'reign' for a few years ..."
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