Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Chinese President Hu Jintao, both of the new nine-seat Politburo Standing Committee, greet the media at the Great Hall...
Raisa Gorbachev , wife of Soviet Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev, during her visit to Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon, December 20,...
British MP and chairman of the Foreign Affairs select committee, Sir Anthony Kershaw , shakes hands with Soviet Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev at...
Soviet Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev announces the death of Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, before returning to the Soviet Union...
Soviet flag adorns the bonnet of a Rolls Royce provided for Russian Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa on their official visit to...
Raisa Gorbachev , wife of Russian Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev outside Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford-On-Avon, during an official visit...
Raisa Gorbachev , wife of Russian Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev, during an official visit to London, 1984.
Russian Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev with his wife Raisa during an official visit to London, 1984.
Raisa Gorbachev , wife of Russian Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev, during an official visit to Britain, 1984.
Russian Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev with his wife Raisa during an official visit to London, 1984.
Raisa Gorbachev, wife of Soviet Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev, during their first visit to London, December 1984.
Raisa Gorbachev, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Politburo member and second in line at the Kremlin, stands dressed in a fur jacket as she poses...
Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Politburo member and second in line at the Kremlin, centre, listens during a welcome speech in the Palace of Westminster,...
Raisa Gorbachev, dressed in a brown fur coat and wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Politburo member and second in line at the Kremlin, centre, walks...
Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Politburo member and second in line at the Kremlin, arrives outside Westminster Abbey in London, U.K., on Tuesday,...
General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev addresses an audience at the 26th Party Congress in the Kremlin, not long after he was voted into office by the...
Alexander Dubcek and Vaclav Havel are joined by other Czechoslovakian politicians as they toast the resignation of the Communist politburo in...
British indie band, Politburo, Liverpool, 13th September 1985. They are: bassist Ian Jackson, guitarist Paul Denheyer and drummer Carl Henry.
Vientiane, LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: In this file picture taken 18 March 2006, Politburo standing member and Vice-President of Lao People's...
View of Communist Party members of the Soviet Politburo and cosmonauts lining up on the platform above Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow to welcome...
Portraits of Soviet Union's politburo members are seen in a former Palace of culture in the ghost city of Prypyat near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant...
Li Changchun , a member of China's politburo, receives the Olympic flame from Marton Simitsek, vice president of Athens Olympic Committee, on the...
Portraits of some members of Soviet Communist Party Politburo are left behind in a concert hall of the ghost town of Pripyat near Chernobyl's nuclear...
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro with Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado the president of the Rebublic, and member of the communist Politburo, at the eighth...
Margaret Thatcher attempts to converse with Raisa Gorbachev using sign language at Chequers, where she and her husband Sovet Politburo member Mikhail...
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Politburo member, with Margaret Thatcher at the Prime Minister's official residence Chequers.
Milovan Djilas , Secretary of the Yugoslav Politburo and Vladimir Dedijer , Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Yugoslav Parliament,...
Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and fellow Politburo members, left to right, Nikolai V. Podgorny , Brezhnev, Alexei N. Kosygin , Mikhail A. Suslov...
Viktor Grishin, member of the Politburo of the Center Committeee of the CPSU, is preparing for the speech, Tbilisi ,1983. Part of the celebration to...
Viktor Grishin, member of the Politburo of the Center Committeee of the CPSU, on the podium, Tbilisi, 1983. The meeting was part of festivities to...
The Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso and China's Politburo Standing Committee member Cai Qi arrive for the High-Level Meeting on...
Communist Party of India General Secretary Prakash Karat with former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu during Politburo meeting in New Delhi on...
China's Politburo Standing Committee member Cai Qi, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, China's...
Alexander Dubček and Václav Havel are joined by other Czechoslovak politicians as they celebrate the resignation of the Communist politburo, Prague,...
Chinese policeman blocks photos being taken outside Zhongnanhai which serves as the central headquarters for the Communist Party of China after the...
China's Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Qishan walks past President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang after speaking during the opening...
Jia Qinglin , member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and the chairman of the National Committee of the...
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, one of the members of new seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee, delivers a speech after being appointed the new...
Members of the new Politburo Standing Committee Xi Jinping delivers a speech as Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng and Wang Qishan...
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, one of the members of new seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee, greets the media after Xi Jimping was appointed...
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, one of the members of new seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee, greets the media at the Great Hall of the...
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, one of the members of new seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee, greets the media at the Great Hall of the...
Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev, a member of the Politburo, arrives in London for a week-long official visit on December 15, 1984.
Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev, a member of the Politburo, arrives in London for a week-long official visit on December 15, 1984.
Soviet Politburo member Mikhail Gorbachev with his wife Raisa Gorbachova in Edinburgh during an official visit to the UK, 21st December 1984....
Myanmar's chief of military intelligence, General Khin Nyunt , listens during his meeting with Luo Gan, the newly elected member of the Chinese...
Communist Party of India -Marxist General Secretary Prakash Karat with former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu during Politburo meeting in New...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...
Head of the Soviet delegation, Romanov Grigory, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First...