Hardcore Soviet coup plotter dies

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 30, 2021 12:08 am

SAKHALIN: Oleg Baklanov, the last member of a failed coup against then-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died at age 89, the head of the Russian space agency said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).'Oleg Dmitriyevich Baklanov, who led our rocket and space industry and headed the ministry of general machine-building of the USSR, has passed away,' the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Twitter. The cause of death was not immediately clear.

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