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Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 349 to FCO (1445Z) ("Central Committee Plenum: Comment") [Gorbachev speech: glasnost/perestroika, political & economic reform, arms control; Ligachev speech; leadership changes] [released Dec 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3178 f85
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 11pp
Themes: British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), European Union (general), Defence (arms control)