1989: Soviet leader Andrei Gromyko dies just short of his 80th birthday. 1990: The House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and ...

May 29, 2025 at 6:00am BST May 29 1975 Queen Margrethe of Denmark arrived in Moscow yesterday to become the first reigning European monarch to make an official visit to Moscow since the shooting ...

On May 5, 1975, a series of meetings in Moscow between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and the foreign ministers of Syria, Egypt, and Iraq concluded without substantive agreements.

Even as President Richard Nixon was luring China away from the U.S.S.R.’s Cold War bloc, Kissinger was buttering up the stony Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, and having frequent dinners ...

Ten years ago, a book about the cold war would, in the words of historian Vladislav Zubok, have been a record of “dangerous but ancient times”. Today, with the US again locked in rivalry with ...

It was very simple, said Andrei Gromyko: Moscow and Teheran had already settled their dispute and UNO need not bother to consider the case. The Netherlands' sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Eelco van ...

L-R U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev, President Gerald Ford, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in 1975 in ‘ The Helsinki Effect ‘ CPH:DOX ...

There was a widespread view that, as with the erstwhile Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, so with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin: the answer to any Western proposals would always be ...

He was at the meeting in Moscow in 1973 between Douglas-Home and Andrei Gromyko, minister of foreign affairs of the USSR under Leonid Brezhnev.

He has been a minister for 20 years, the only person capable of rivaling Andreï Gromyko, his Soviet predecessor who was foreign minister for 28 years, from 1957 to 1985.

In the middle of the Cold War at a reception for Andrei Gromyko in London, Heath’s coldness and unease with people was expressed again to O’Sullivan, this time by Permanent Under-Secretary of ...

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, making his first visit to Egypt since the 1967 Six-Day War, was scheduled to confer today with President Nasser in a visit which touched off speculation ...