Mikhail Gorbachev resignation
- Title
- Mikhail Gorbachev resignation
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech; News bulletin
- TX Date
- 25 Dec 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:02:10
- Description
- Janey Mitchell 19:00 IRN news bulletin on the resignation of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Includes report from Andrew Harding in Moscow, with extracts from resignation speech. Also Tim Locke report on the Soviet leader’s rise and fall, with archive cuts from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Gorbachev.
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher; Mikhail Gorbachev; Tim Locke; Andrew Harding; Janey Mitchell
- Keywords
- Russia; USSR; International relations; Political reform; Heads of state; Presidents; Resignation (political); Mikhail Gorbachev; CIS countries
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