Mikhail Gorbachev with Yasser Arafat, March 2, 2000, in Ramallah. (Jamal Aruri/AFP)
A failed putsch on Aug. 19 to Aug. 21, 1991 saw a handful of conservative communists try to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. In the aftermath, however, neither Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nor his Libyan counterpart Muammar Gaddafi congratulated the...
A failed putsch on Aug. 19 to Aug. 21, 1991 saw a handful of conservative communists try to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. In the aftermath, however, neither Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nor his Libyan counterpart Muammar Gaddafi congratulated the...Gorbatchev, l’initiateur d’une politique de détente au Moyen-Orient...