MOSCOW -- Prominent Russian historian and journalist Sergo Mikoyan has died in a Moscow clinic of leukemia, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
Mikoyan, 80, was an ethnic Armenian born in Moscow. His father was Soviet Communist Party leader Anastas Mikoyan, a long-time associate of Josef Stalin.
Between 1970 and 1990, Sergo Mikoyan was chief editor of the Russian-language magazine "Latin America" in the Soviet Union. Mikoyan was considered one of the leading specialists on Russian-Cuban relations, largely because of trips he made to Cuba with his father.
He later was a professor at Georgetown University in Washington and a leading researcher at the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of the World's Economy and International Relations.
Mikoyan, 80, was an ethnic Armenian born in Moscow. His father was Soviet Communist Party leader Anastas Mikoyan, a long-time associate of Josef Stalin.
Between 1970 and 1990, Sergo Mikoyan was chief editor of the Russian-language magazine "Latin America" in the Soviet Union. Mikoyan was considered one of the leading specialists on Russian-Cuban relations, largely because of trips he made to Cuba with his father.
He later was a professor at Georgetown University in Washington and a leading researcher at the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of the World's Economy and International Relations.