MOSCOW, April 10. /ITAR-TASS/. A group of State Duma members from different political factions has prepared a request addressed to Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. The lawmakers demand to conduct a prosecutor’s investigation into the events that took place in the period of USSR breakup.
Group of lawmakers demands to try Mikhail Gorbachev for complicity in USSR breakup
Gorbachev is accused of creating the USSR State Council that adopted orders on recognizing the independence of Baltic Soviet republics
Mikhail Gorbachev
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