When Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev came to power as General Secretary of the ... Gorbachev's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, had already concluded that reforms were needed, but he fell fatally ill before ...

In the early 1990s, the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in Twin Peaks was inescapable, and everyone wanted to ...

In 1985, after three elderly leaders died in quick succession, Gorbachev, a protégé of former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, was appointed General Secretary and head of the Soviet Union.

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev ... and was succeeded by two other geriatric leaders: Yuri Andropov, Gorbachev’s mentor, and Konstantin Chernenko. It wasn’t until March 1985, when Chernenko died ...

Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev. Interestingly, all save Gorbachev were alive when the USSR was formed. Gorbachev was instrumental in the dissolution of the union of nations.

During childhood, Mikhail G ... by more of the same in Messrs. Andropov (former KGB head) and Chernenko. But they soon passed, too, and then came Gorbachev, an obviously more refined, intelligent ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

Its leaders through the years — either dictators or secretary generals of the Central Committee — were Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Breshnev, Yuri Andropov ...