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Malta Summit
The Malta Summit was a meeting between US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 2–3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It followed a meeting that included Ronald Reagan in New York in December 1988. During the summit, Bush and Gorbachev declared an end to the Cold War, although whether it was truly such is a matter of debate. News reports of the time referred to the Malta Summit as one of the most important since World War II, when British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed on a post-war plan for Europe at the Yalta Conference. Summit highlights Brent Scowcroft and other members of the US administration were initially concerned that the proposed Malta Summit would be "premature" and that it would generate high expectations but result in little more than Soviet grandstanding. However, French President François Mitterra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TS Maxim Gorkiy
TS ''Maxim Gorkiy'' was, until 30 November 2008, a cruise ship owned by Sovcomflot, Russia, under long-term charter to Phoenix Reisen, Germany. She was built in 1969 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, West Germany for the German Atlantic Line as TS ''Hamburg''. In late 1973 she was very briefly renamed TS ''Hanseatic''. The following year she was sold to the Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union and received the name ''Maksim Gorkiy'' in honour of the writer Maxim Gorky, renamed to ''Maxim Gorkiy'' after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. On 20 August 2008 ''Maxim Gorkiy'' was sold to Orient Lines. She was due to enter service with her new owners on 15 April 2009 under the name TS ''Marco Polo II'', but in November 2008 the relaunch of the Orient Lines brand was cancelled. On 8 January 2009 the ship was sold for scrap, and she was beached at Alang, India on 26 February 2009. Although never used as such, the ship was originally planned as a dual ocean liner/crui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
