Pavel Palazhchenko
Pavel Palazhchenko or Palazchenko is a highlevel Soviet conference interpreter who was the chief English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze from 1985 and 1991.
Palazhchenko was born onMarch 1949 in Monino, Moscow Oblast, Russia. He graduated from the Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages in 1972.
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