Russia: Mikhail Gorbachev Arrives In Moscow With The Body Of His Wife Raisa

Record ID: 4103

  • Title: Russia: Mikhail Gorbachev Arrives In Moscow With The Body Of His Wife Raisa
  • Date: 21st September 1999
  • Summary: The plane, provided by the Russian government, carrying Mikhail Gorbachev, his daughter Irina and the body of his wife Raisa, landed at Vnukovo airport on September 21. Gorbachev, who could barely speak with tears welling in reddened eyes, told journalists that two months before he had great hopes about Raisa's recovery. Now that hope was gone. He added: "There's one thought that keeps bothering me - did I do everything I could?" The Russian media and public alike have been closely following Raisa Gorbachev's prolonged illness. She had been being treated for acute leukaemia at a clinic in Germany since July. Raisa Gorbachev will be remembered not just for the chic fashions that so shocked the conservative Soviet public and charmed the West when her husband took power in 1985, but for the way she embodied the new age his policies ushered in.
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  • Location: RUSSIA CIS MOSCOW MOSKVA
  • Reuters ID: LDL0012BN8BPZ
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