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...offered a toast to "you, your country and to what you've done for the world. It has been," he added, "an inspiration to all of us." Yeltsin smiled and gave a surprising response. The date, he noted, was March 2, which is the birthday of his predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev. "I think we should drink a toast to Mikhail Sergeyevich," Yeltsin said, "and to everything he accomplished...
When more than 60% of Tatarstan's voters spurned the last-ditch appeals of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and said a fervent yes to sovereignty last week, many Russians saw an ominous parallel. Recalling Mikhail Gorbachev's futile struggle to preserve the motley amalgam of nations forged into the Soviet Union, they feared that their own Russian Federation might be heading for disintegration. "We are not only on the brink of a crisis," said Valeri Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court, "but on the edge of an abyss...
Then came Gorbachev, glasnost, democratization and their natural consequence: the collapse of the Soviet state. We in the West have tended to underestimate the economic factor in the breakup of the U.S.S.R. We saw Balts, Georgians and Ukrainians venting their hatred of Russia and wrenching free of those notorious Russian-dominated institutions of repression -- the Communist Party, the KGB, the Soviet army...
...Mikhail Gorbachev probably doesn't realize just how much help he got from Ted Turner in fending off last summer's coup d'etat. Addressing independent filmmakers in Santa Monica, Calif., the hyperactive Atlantan informed a stunned audience that his decision to present Gone With the Wind in Soviet theaters changed the course of history. "It's a strong antiwar film," explained Turner. "I just think it had something to do with the fact that people there chose not to have a massive civil...
During the republic's campaign for independence, the erstwhile friend of Mikhail Gorbachev was branded a "top Kremlin agent." But in the wake of ousting dissident turned despot Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January, Tbilisi leaders took a more benign view of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week appointed him to chair the new State Council, effectively giving Shevardnadze stewardship of his mountainous homeland. The veteran diplomat now faces pressing tasks: staving off economic collapse, healing the divisions created by months of civil strife and ending the isolation into which Georgia was pushed during Gamsakhurdia's flirtation with dictatorship...