Background and Briefing Notes ← + Legal Instruments to be Signed + Political Relations → Background and Briefing Notes Mulroney in Moscow, Kyiv, and Leningrad Mulroney in Moscow, Kyiv, and Leningrad+ Tentative Programme+ Visit Overview+ Visit Themes and Objectives+ Legal Instruments to be SignedBackground and Briefing Notes+ Political Relations+ Trade and Economic Relations+ Chronology of Canadian-Soviet Relations + Environment + Arctic Co-operation+ Canada in the East-West Context+ Human Rights in the USSR + The Canada-USSR Business Council + Registered Canadian Joint Ventures + Arms Control and Disarmament + Canada-Soviet Fit Trek + General Exchanges Agreement (GENEXAG)+ USSR Fact Sheet+ Moscow Note+ Ukrainian SSR (or the Ukraine) Fact Sheet+ The Ukraine: Historical Perspective + Kyiv Note+ Taras Shevchenko Monument Note + Leningrad Note+ Visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to Canada, 1983Major Messages+ Major Messages: Moscow+ Major Messages: Kyiv+ Major Messages: LeningradMoscow, November 20-22, 1989+ Meeting with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Mr. Nikolay Ryzhkov+ Meeting with the President of the Soviet Union and the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev+ Evening at the Bolshoi+ Private Meeting with Soviet International Olympic Committee Members+ Meeting and Luncheon with the Executive Committee of the Canada-USSR Business Council+ Launch of the Canada-Soviet Fit Trek ChallengeKyiv, November 23, 1989+ Meeting with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine, Mr. Vitaly Masol+ Meeting with the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, Mr. Vladimir Ivashko+ Prime Minister's Press Conference, Kyiv + Taras Shevchenko Monument Laying of Flowers Ceremony + Official Dinner Hosted by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the UkraineLeningrad, November 24-25, 1989+ Visit and Speech at the Arctic and Antarctic Institute+ Courtesy Call on the Mayor of Leningrad, Mr. Vladimir Khodyrev+ Meeting with the First Secretary, Leningrad Region Communist Party, Mr. Boris GidaspovBiographical Notes+ Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev + Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachev+ Nikolay Ivanovich Ryzhkov+ Lyudmila Ryzhkov+ Nanuli Razhdenovna Shevardnadze + Eduard Amroseyevich Shevardnadze+ Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bessmertnykh + Vladislav Leonidovich Malkevich+ Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko+ Vitaly Andreevich Masol+ Boris Veniaminovich Gidaspov Reference Documents+ Visit to the USSR by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Background Papers+ USSR – Canada Official Visit of Prime Minister Mulroney, November 1989, Scenario BookFurther ReadingAbout the Author