Gorbachev

Alexander Palladin01.02.2025

As I mentioned recently in my The End of an Era previous piece, in October of 1990, I got an offer to head the Presidential Information Service (PIS) post, reporting directly to Valery Ivanovich Boldin, Chief of Staff of the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. Each morning we would prepare digests of the latest mass media […]

Alexander Palladin13.01.2025

On January 7, 1991, I was discussing current issues with Valery Ivanovich Boldin, Chief of Staff of the USSR President, when a red bulb lit up at his desk signaling a phone call from Mikhail Gorbachev. On such occasions visitors had to leave Boldin’s office immediately but Valery Ivanovich picked up the receiver with one […]

Alexander Palladin25.12.2024

Upon his return to Moscow from Crimea after the well-known events of August 1991, Gorbachev appointed Grigory Revenko as the head of the Presidential Administration instead of Valery Boldin who was arrested for participating in the State Emergency Committee. Revenko brought with him a group of trusted people, including Anatoly Sazonov. He was made the […]

Alexander Palladin06.11.2024

My speech at Richard Bland College, Petersburg, Va. March 20, 1985. “Mr. Chairman, esteemed hosts, ladies and gentlemen! As little as I might know about your country and your mores, I do know that a person in my present position is expected to start with а joke. I feel being under special pressure of this […]

Alexander Palladin19.10.2024

38 years ago, in the capital of Iceland, Gorbachev and Reagan had their second personal meeting. It almost ended with an agreement on the complete elimination of nuclear missile weapons of the USSR and the USA. Fortunately for us, at the last moment, the advisers of the then head of the White House persuaded […]

Yuri Chekalin23.05.2024

In the USA and Great Britain, the name of Vadim BAKATIN is known today by many more people than in Russia. For the West, he is a hero who managed to destroy the KGB in the shortest possible time. That is, to fulfill the task set by the President of the USSR Mikhail GORBACHEV, without […]

Alexei Sidnev08.09.2022

It was in 2002, 10 years’ anniversary of the International University in Moscow. President Gorbachev was awarded an honorary doctorate degree. At the ceremony I was asked to speak on behalf of the Alumni. I thanked Mr Gorbachev for opening up the Soviet Union, letting us be free, for the opportunity to learn from the […]

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Gorbachev

Eyewitness Report on August ’91 Events At Kremlin

Gorbachev As a Reincarnated Pontius Pilate

The End of an Era

The Soviet Newsman Speaks in the USA

Assisted By Reagan Fate Was Merciful to Russia

Executive Servant of the Spotted Devil

Gorbachev’s Testament

Uncle Sam in Banana Republic of Guatemala

About the Publican and the Pharisee

Confession of an Intelligence Officer

Do Politicians Forget Personal Insults and Betrayals?