Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Gennady Yanayev

Born: August 26, 1937
Died: September 24, 2010 (aged 73)
Bio: Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev was a Soviet politician and statesman whose career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast.