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Title:USSR: Gorbachev Elected As Soviet President As Gromyko Steps Down
Date:1st October 1988
Summary:Soviet Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev was elected State President by the Supreme Soviet on October 1. The vote for Gorbachev was unanimous on the day after President Andrei Gromyko announced his resignation. A top-level reshuffle of the Central Committee presented by Gorbachev on September included the retirement of four other officials closely linked to the late Leonid Brezhnev.
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Location:USSR CCCP RUSSIA MOSCOW MOSKVA
Reuters ID:LDL0011NA2Z6Z
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