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Speaking through a translator at the Institute of Politics, as well as at an earlier question-and-answer session with reporters, Gorbachev said repeatedly that Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia should be respected. The elections, which President Vladimir V. Putin’s United Russia party won with 64.1 percent of the vote, have drawn criticism from international observers...
...Certainly they are legitimate,” Gorbachev told reporters when asked about the elections. “So far as I know, there were some irregularities, but overall it’s very important that many voters turned out to vote...
...speech last night, Gorbachev praised Putin but deflected questions about the United Russia party, insisting that its success or failure could only become clear with time...
...Putin came to [the party’s] help,” Gorbachev said, “but now United Russia must answer all the commitments that they took to the people...
...Gorbachev is at Harvard for a conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty. Signed in 1987, the treaty substantially reduced the nuclear arsenals of both the U.S. and the Soviet Union...