Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/world/europe/yegor-ligachev-dead.html