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...months, Yeltsin seemed to be keeping his word. The Russian government provided Gorbachev with a chauffeured limousine so that he could commute from his dacha outside Moscow to a downtown office building that housed his new think tank. He also roamed the globe, raising money for various humanitarian and scholarly ventures. But in the spring Gorbachev started sniping at Yeltsin, accusing him of running the economy into the ground. The Russian President struck back by stripping Gorbachev of some of his perks...
...January they moved into a three-room Moscow apartment overflowing with 20,000 books and documents. Turning 61 this week, he is starting his job as president of an international policy institute. She is trying to make ends meet. They still enjoy the comparative comforts of a country dacha, a limousine and 20 bodyguards, but life as private citizens has proved hard, the couple told a Sipa Press interviewer. Gorbachev's monthly pension is 3,900 rubles, once a princely sum but at current exchange rates worth only $60. Says he: "Last month we calculated we'd spent...
...Kennedy School, like half of the academic institutions in America, has offered an invitation to Mikhail S. Gorbachev--you know, the former leader of the former Soviet Union. If I were Gorbachev, I'd take my forty-dollar-a-month pension, settle into my little dacha in the Crimea and play with my grand-daughter. I wouldn't want to brave the Boston winter to explain to 24-year-old gov jocks how I failed as the leader of the world's other "superpower." Even Freud wouldn't recommend that much self-awareness...
...former aides and Moscow journalists, signing autographs, exchanging lemon vodka toasts and cracking jokes. "My mother has been telling me for a long time to give it all up and come home," he quipped. But anyone who believes the ex-President is going to slip quietly away to a dacha to write his memoirs or putter about in the garden could be seriously mistaken. "My role is changing, but I am not leaving the political scene," ; Gorbachev announced. "I have big plans...
...would receive a pension of 4,000 rubles a month (roughly $40 at the present exchange rate), the use of two official cars and the services of a staff of 20. In private, overzealous Russian bureaucrats reportedly told Gorbachev's wife Raisa to pack up and vacate the presidential dacha for more modest housing no later than midnight on the day of his resignation...