MOSCOW, April 10 (RAPSI) - Mikhail Gorbachev is willing to cooperate with the Prosecutor General’s Office that has received an inquiry from the State Duma. Some Duma deputies have requested an inquiry into the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the former Soviet president’s role in it.

It was reported Thursday that a group of State Duma members addressed Prosecutor General Yury Chaika with a request to bring criminal charges against those responsible for the dissolution of the Soviet Union, including Gorbachev who was running the country at the time.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the first and last Soviet president. In December 1991, after the Belavezha Accords and the Alma-Ata Protocol were signed by leaders of 11 Soviet republics on the dissolution of the Union, Gorbachev announced his resignation.

One of the authors of the recent request, Yevgeny Fyodorov (United Russia), told RIA Novosti that the request was necessary in order to study any coup instigation from abroad in light of the Ukrainian crisis.

“We have filed a request. This is related to current events in Russia and Ukraine. We require an investigation into the following: whether there was foreign influence in 1991 and whether it was a similar coup strategy as was used this year in Ukraine,” Fyodorov said.

On February 22, a change of power took place in Ukraine that could be categorized as a coup. The Verkhovna Rada ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, amended the Constitution and scheduled a presidential election for May 25.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a news conference in March that Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia, remains Ukraine’s legitimate president.