Gorbachev Says His Wife Is ‘OK,’ Not in Danger
Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Monday that his wife, Raisa, who was reported ill after last week’s coup attempt, is “OK.”
A presidential spokesman said over the weekend that Raisa Gorbachev, 59, had “serious problems with her health,” but Gorbachev played down the report.
“It’s nothing,” Gorbachev told reporters outside the Supreme Soviet legislative session Monday when asked about the illness. “Everything is OK,” Gorbachev said. “There is no danger.”
Raisa Gorbachev was last seen in public walking off an airplane at a Moscow airport early Thursday after three days in captivity with Gorbachev, their daughter Irina, son-in-law Anatoly and two granddaughters.
As she left the plane, Raisa Gorbachev was walking unassisted, an arm around one of the grandchildren. At a news conference later that day, Gorbachev said that house arrest had been trying for his wife.
“Raisa Maximovna and my daughter took it very hard. Yesterday, Raisa Maximovna was not well,” he said at the news conference, without elaboration.
Raisa Gorbachev was reported to be resting at the Soviet president’s country home northwest of the city.
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