IT EAST SURROUNDS BY THREE HUNDRED FRIENDS THAT MIKHAIL GORBATCHEV
CELEBRERA HIS SOIXANTE-DIXIEME ANNIVERSARY








MOSCOW, March 2.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti ").  It is in the shows of "
Marriott Grand Hotel ", surrounds by three hundred friends, that
Mikhail Gorbatchev, first and single president of the USSR, will
celebrera Friday his soixante-dixieme anniversary.

Ria " Novosti " learned with the service from press from the
Gorbatchev Foundation that invitations has the reception had ete
envoyees mainly has " friendly close relations ".

Gorbatchev was always and everywhere accompanies by his wife, Raissa
Maximovna.  But it is the second time that Mikhail Sergueievitch
celebre his day of birth without it.  Raissa has leaves this world in
September 1999.  There is not any doubt that all those which will be
presents has the ceremony will have a pensee for the faithful partner
of the president of the USSR.

Thursday, Mikhail Gorbatchev A animates a scientific conference on the
assessment of the perestroika.  Answering to the politologist
Viatcheslav Nikonov who pointed out to him that " small cognac glass "
would have ete rigour in this anniversary day before, it had precise
that Friday there would be cognac and not only " one small glass ".
The journalists presents have immediately thinks that the former
secretary-general of the PCUS, initiator of sadly the celebre campaign
against alcohol of the beginning of the perestroika, definitively had
enterrre his master key political.

The service of press has advertisement that from 12 A 16 hours Mikhail
Sergueievitch will receive has the Gorbatchev Foundation, but without
reveler the identite of the people who will come feliciter the
recipiendaire, simply pointing out that the former vice-chancellor
Hans-Dietrich Genscher was arrives from Germany for this occasion.
However, of the messages of congratulations have arrived at the "
father of the perestroika " for several days already.  They come from
Russia and abroad and are signs by statesmen, political and public
personalities, men of letters, scientists, simple people and
communities.

With the Gorbatchev Foundation it has ete releve that Mikhail
Sergueievitch was in excellent form.  A few days ago, being addressed
has journalists, Mikhail Gorbatchev A declares that his mission
premiere has the tete social-democrate Party unifies was of " creer a
strong party, popular, alive, a party of young people ".  In same
time, it A stresses that it did not have the intention of representer
has elections, that they are legislatives or presidentielles.

That it or not is wanted, this Friday, day of the soixante-dixieme
anniversary of the last secretary-general of the PCUS, " forces which
had directs and directs the sovietic company ", and of the first and
single president of the USSR, nobody can deny that this man made time
in the history of our country.