Mikhail Gorbachev resignation announcement
- Title
- Mikhail Gorbachev resignation announcement
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 25 Dec 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:01:02
- Description
- President Mikhail Gorbachev announcing and giving reasons for his resignation (part of his resignation speech), with the voice of an interpreter, as the Soviet Union breaks up and is replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- Contributors
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Keywords
- USSR; Heads of state; Presidents; Resignation (political); Mikhail Gorbachev; CIS countries
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LBC/IRN, "Mikhail Gorbachev resignation announcement". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0010600429004 (Accessed 04 Oct 2025)