On December 31, 2011, at the request of the Trade Union of Russian Citizens, Russian lawyers developed a mechanism for initiating the prosecution of Mikhail Gorbachev. The trade union proposes to judge the first president of the USSR for not fulfilling his duties and allowing the collapse of the state entrusted to him. The trade union will demand the renewal of the old criminal case, which on November 4, 1991, being the Head of the Department of the USSR Procurator General's Office for Supervision of the Execution of State Security Laws, initiated by Viktor Ilyukhin against the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev for treason.