Anatoly Chernyaev
Anatoly Chernyaev — assistant to the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died at the age of 95 years. Causes of death were not disclosed. On Monday, March 13, according to the website “the Gorbachev Foundation”, where he worked since 1992.
“Ended the life of a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions are inextricably linked to a great historical era,” reads the obituary.
“His contribution to the foreign policy of perestroika, the democratization of the country is invaluable. Publicity was, for him, synonymous with honesty, power and freedom of speech, his credo, his sine qua non (an indispensable condition — approx. “Of the tape.ru”), “—noted in the Fund. There is also called the relationship between Chernyaev and Gorbachev during the years of joint work and fraternal.
Chernyaev was born in 1921 in Moscow. During the great Patriotic war, he participated in the battles for the liberation of the Baltic States. From 1986 to 1991, he worked as an assistant for international Affairs Secretary General, then President of the USSR Gorbachev. Was a supporter of unilateral disarmament of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany, the cessation of aid to Cuba and Vietnam, transfer the Kuril Islands to Japan. Since 1992 the project was managed by the “Gorbachev Foundation” “Documentary history of Perestroika. The foreign policy of Perestroika”.