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26.04.1986
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Soviet Union,
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| 22.01.1980 | SU | Andrei Sakharov is exiled to Gorky. |
| 19.01.1980 | SU | 62 nations boycott the Moscow Olympics. |
| 12.11.1982 | SU | Yuri Andropov becomes new leader in the Kremlin |
| 02.02.1983 | SU | US-Soviet strategic arms talks begin. |
| 01.09.1983 | SU | USSR shoot down Korean airliner. |
| 13.02.1984 | SU | Chernenko takes over at Kremlin. |
| 08.05.1984 | SU | Moscow announces boycott of LA Olympics. |
| 22.06.1984 | SU | Huge explosion rocks Soviet missile base. |
| 11.03.1975 | SU | Gorbachev elected CPSU leader. |
| 1986 | SU KA |
Corrupt Khazakh leader replaced by a Russian. Student uprising leads to some deaths. |
| 02.1986 | SU | Gorbachev announces Glasnost and Perestroika (In frame of Marxism-Leninism) to Congress of the CPSU. It is not pluralism. |
| 11.02.1986 | SU | Natan Scharansky is freed from Soviet prison. |
| 25- 26.04.1986 |
SU UA |
Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident. |
| 06.08.1986 | SU | Trickle of exit visas for Soviet Jews begins. |
| 13.10.1986 | SU | Rekjavik summit fails over SDI. |
| 19.12.1986 | SU | Andrei Sakharov freed from exile in Gorky. |
| 21.12.1986 | Students in China stage pro-democracy demos, spurred on by Gorbachev's reforms in Russia. | |
| 1987 | EE LT LV |
The Singing Revolution in the Baltic - peaceful protest; no international reporting. |
| 27.01.1987 | SU | Gorbachev calls for glasnost. |
| 29.06.1987 | SU | Parliament in session. Soviet PM Ryzhkov denounces "obsolete" Russian management methods, promising that inefficient factories will be closed down next year. "If efforts to improve [loss-making factories'] work turn out to be futile in the new conditions, [they] will have to be eliminated" through bankruptcy. Gorbachev insists unemployment will not be allowed. Ryzhkov hints at reforms gradually freeing prices of some goods. Gosplan and Gosssnab (state planning and supply committees) will also be drastically reorganised. |
| 08.12.1987 | SU | Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty. |
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