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The Presidential Council (
Gorbachev invited White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu to Moscow to advice him on organising the presidential support staff.[3][4] It was abolished on 26 December 1990. Only the writer Valentin Rasputin
was a non-party member.
Members
The members were as follows:
| Name | Occupation |
|---|---|
Chingiz Aitmatov
|
A Kyrgyz writer |
| Vadim Bakatin | Minister of Interior
|
| Valery Boldin | Head of the Central Committee General Department |
| Nikolai Gubenko | Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union
|
| Alberts Kauls | Chairman of the Ādaži agricultural company (Latvian) |
| Vadim Medvedev | Secretary for Ideology of CPSU Central Committee |
Yury Maslyukov
|
Chairman of the State Planning Committee |
| Yury Osipian | USSR Academy of Sciences
|
| Yevgeny Primakov | Chairman of the USSR Soviet of the Union |
| Valentin Rasputin | A ruralist writer |
| Grigory Revenko | The head of the president's staff (Ukrainian) |
Alexander Yakovlev
|
A senior secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Nikolai Ryzhkov | Council of Ministers
|
| Stanislav Shatalin | Economist |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union (Georgian) |
| Gennady Yanayev | Vice President of the Soviet Union
|
| Veniamin Yarin | Chairman of the Russian United Labour Front
|
| Dmitry Yazov | Minister of Defence of Soviet Union
|
References
- ^ "Закон СССР от 14 марта 1990 г. N 1360-I "Об учреждении поста Президента СССР и внесении изменений и дополнений в Конституцию (Основной Закон) СССР"". constitution.garant.ru. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ "ПРЕЗИДЕНТСКИЙ СОВЕТ: НОУ-ХАУ ГОРБАЧЕВА". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 26 March 1990. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 16 June 2023.