Nancy Reagan maid returned to work at the White House. In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit Washington, D.C. since Nikita Khrushchev made the trip in 1959 at the height of the Cold War. Nancy was in charge of planning and hosting the important and highly anticipated state dinner, with the goal to impress both the Soviet leader and especially his wife Raisa Gorbacheva. After the meal, she recruited pianist Van Cliburn to play a rendition of "Moscow Nights" for the Soviet delegation, to which Mikhail and Raisa broke out into song. Secretary of State George P. Shultz
Raisa Bogatyrova funds that had been allegedly misappropriated. According to the Ukrainian magazine Bogatyrova has placed among the top 10 most influential women in Ukraine since 2005-2010 (five years). She was recognized as the second most influential woman in 2006-2008 after Yulia Tymoshenko. Bogatyrova was born on January 6, 1953 in the town of Bakal, Chelyabinsk Oblast, of the Russian SFSR (then the Soviet Union) to family of workers. She was born on the day of the Christmas Eve according to the Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Her father is Vasyl Petrovych Laktionov (1912–1985) and mother - Hanna Markivna Laktionova (born 1918). Raisa has