From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Nikolai Ryzhkov,the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union   
   of Soviet Socialist Republics (Premier of the Soviet Union for short)   
   from 1985 to 1991,born September 28th 1929,died February 28th 2024   
   according to various sources...he was the last surviving Soviet leader   
   of such prominence.   
      
   He had retired in September after 20 years as a Senator of the Russian   
   Federation,having been defeated by Boris Yeltsin in the 1991 presidential   
   election.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)