Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, 30 August 2022 at the age of 91, had visited the Dominican Republic in 2001, Listin Diario reports. Gorbachev visited and gave several talks on the Russian transformation process in Punta Cana and Santo Domingo. He also attended the start of the Diario Libre free newspaper.
He landed at the Punta Cana International Airport on 10 July 2001 and departed on 30 July 2001.
The Deputy Foreign Relations Minister Jatzel Román told Listín Diario that in his roles as former general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and president of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev dealt with everything concerning the Perestroika period at the end of the Cold War. He said in the talks, Gorbachev addressed his relations with former US President Ronald Reagan. When here, Gorbachev also spoke of the transition processes underway, given the end of several civil wars in Latin America. Jatzel Roman is the deputy minister for consular and migratory affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
During the 20 days that Mikhail Gorbachev was officially known to have been in the country, he participated in several interviews and was decorated by former President Hipolito Mejia with the Order of the Heraldry of Cristobal Colon in the rank of Grand Gold Cross.
Diario Libre recalls that Gorbachev was one of three Nobel Prize winners present for the start of the Diario Libre newspaper in 2001.
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31 August 2022