Katic will play Raisa Gorbachev, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, and Cash has been tapped to star as a young journalist covering the summit. Production on the project is set to begin later this week in ...

It was the first time since the death of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin that the wife of a Soviet leader had played such a public role, and many Russians found Raisa Gorbachev showy and arrogant.

Replicas of a sculpture in Boston, Massachusetts, they were presented to Moscow in 1991 by then US First Lady Barbara Bush, after her counterpart Raisa Gorbachev was said to have admired the original.

In his autobiography published in Russia in 2017, Gorbachev wrote: “My mother was Ukrainian. My wife, Raisa, was also Ukrainian. This is an issue that should not be handled as propaganda.