By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
January 9, 2023 at 06:30 JST
A formal telegram that confirmed President Mikhail Gorbachev was alive following an attempted coup in August 1991. It is among declassified diplomatic documents made publicly available by the Japanese Foreign Ministry toward the end of 2022. (Naotaka Fujita)
Japan found itself in the enviable position of being among the first nations to learn that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had survived a failed coup attempt by Communist hard-liners in 1991 before the country collapsed under the weight of his reform programs. [Read More]
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