Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

male (NYC, ny, United States)
Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play "Angels in America", for which he was awarded...
Yegor Ligachev

Yegor Ligachev

male
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Russian politician, who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Originally a protege of...
Roy Medvedev

Roy Medvedev

male
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev a Russian historian, was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from the Leningrad University. During the Soviet era,...
Nikolai Ryzhkov

Nikolai Ryzhkov

male
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was a Soviet official and, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a Russian politician. He served as Chairman of the...
Valentin Pavlov

Valentin Pavlov

male, deceased
Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (Russian: Валентин Сергеевич Павлов; September 26, 1937 - March 30, 2003) was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union fro...
Tatyana Zaslavskaya

Tatyana Zaslavskaya

female
Tatyana Zaslavskaya is a Russian economical sociologist, a theoretician of perestroika, an author and co-author of several books in economy of the...
Mariela Castro

Mariela Castro

female
Mariela Castro Espín is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana and an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba. She is the d...
Viktor Gerashchenko

Viktor Gerashchenko

male
Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko, byname "Gerakl" (the Russian version of Heracles), was the Chairman of the Soviet and then Russian Central Bank...
Stanislav Govorukhin

Stanislav Govorukhin

male
Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin has been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s. His films, often featuring...
Yegor Yakovlev

Yegor Yakovlev

male, deceased
Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (March 14, 1930 - September 18, 2005) was one of the founders of Gorbachev and Yeltsin-style glasnost, and one of the...