Archive

1990 Jun 1 - 1990 Aug 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3183
Soviet Union (UK/Soviet relations) (Part 17)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 24
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 312
Any docs withheld? 25

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90 Aug 3 Fr Major Soviet Union: Chairman Ryzhkov letter to MT (UK/Soviet economic relations) [request for long-term financial assistance] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 7 Tu Major Soviet Union: Treasury record of conversation ("Soviet Request for Bilateral Aid") [Francis Maude, Soviet Finance Minister Pavlov: "withdrawal of credits by British banks... creating severe problems... Soviet government would have no choice but to introduce a moratorium on payments"; Ryzhkov letter to MT requesting long-term financial assistance] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 10 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram U/N to FCO (0557Z) ("Soviet Request for British Financial Assistance") [advice on response] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 14 Tu Major Soviet Union: MT letter to Chairman Ryzhkov (UK/Soviet economic relations) [interim reply to Soviet request for long-term financial assistance] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 17 Fr Major Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to Morris ("Soviet Balance of Payments: Crisis Point") [report that Soviet Bank for Foreign Trade on verge of suspending all import and debt service payments] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 21 Tu Major Soviet Union: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Visits by Baltic Ministers") [Hurd advises MT to meet with President of Lithuania & Prime Minister of Latvia] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 21 Tu Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1542 to FCO (1207Z) ("Gorbachev's Speech to the Military, 17 August: Internal Aspects") [report: perestroika; market economy; ownership; political freedoms; new Union Treaty; calls for secession] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 27 Mo Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell note to MT (Current Political Opinions and Attitudes in the USSR/Soviet Policy in the Current Gulf Crisis) [papers by Chris Donnelly] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 31 Fr Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell letter to Hurd PS ("Economic Assistance for the Soviet Union") [MT & Soviet ambassador keen to meet, to discuss "increasingly desperate" situation, subject to MT's schedule] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 31 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 Press Office minute to Charles Powell (Pravda London correspondent: questions for the Prime Minister) [questions & draft answers] [released Jul 2018]