Georgy Arbatov

Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov (Russian Гео́ргий Арка́дьевич Арба́тов; 19 May 1923 – 1 October 2010) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist who served as an adviser to five General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was best known in the West during the Cold War era as a representative for the policies of the Soviet Union in the United States, where his fluent English helped make him a frequent guest on American television. He was the founding Director and later Emeritus Director of the Institute of USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), the Soviet and Russian think tank for the study of USA and Canada.

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Georgy Arbatov
Birth dateMay 19, 1923
Birth place
Ukraine , Kherson
Date of deathOctober 01, 2010
Place of death
Moscow

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