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October 19, 2005
The Farm Visit “That Changed the World”
Interview by Thomas Rymer
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During his 10-year tenure as Soviet ambassador to Ottawa the late Alexander Yakovlev made a number of friends, including then-Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan. Staff writer Thomas Rymer talked to Whelan about the relationship and Yakovlev’s momentous talk with Mikhail Gorbachev at his farm in 1983.



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