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Mikhail Gorbachev
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev signs his autograph for pupils at a high school in Tel Aviv in September 2003. (Photo: Reuters)
August 31, 2022, 2:56 pm
Voice of the Jewish News: The man who brought Russia in from the cold
Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered not just as the leader who ended the Cold War — but one who altered Israeli society
By Voice of the Jewish News
Mikhail Gorbachev, who died aged 91 this week, and (inset) Natan Sharansky, who spoke exclusively to Jewish News
August 31, 2022, 12:20 pm
Gorbachev didn’t realise there’s no such thing as a little bit of freedom – Sharansky
EXCLUSIVE: Natan Sharansky, the political activist and symbol of the plight of Jews in the USSR, tells Jewish News that the last Soviet leader was a unique phenomenon
By Michael Daventry
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, pictured during an event in the United States in October 2005 (Photo: Reuters/Jim Young/File Photo)
August 30, 2022, 10:23 pm
Mikhail Gorbachev, who made a generation of Russian Jews in Israel, dies aged 91
The last Soviet leader lifted restrictions on Jewish emigration from the USSR and admitted antisemitism had infected his country
By Michael Daventry
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