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Another leader who was peeved by what he regarded as cavalier treatment by the commonwealth founders was Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan. When the agreement was signed he was in the air, en route to Moscow for a scheduled meeting with Gorbachev and the three Slavic presidents that never came off; Yeltsin phoned him at Vnukovo airport shortly after his plane landed to tell him about the agreement. Nazarbayev darkly suspected that the Slavic leaders were aiming at a "medieval" division of the union along religious- ethnic-cultural lines and talked for awhile of siding with Gorbachev to keep...
...like CIA director Robert Gates, who warned that the former Soviet Union faced the greatest potential for explosive civic turmoil since the Bolsheviks consolidated their power roughly 70 years ago. But as the week wore on, the U.S. and its friends were beginning to face up to life without Gorbachev or a Soviet central government and to conclude that it might not be so awful after...
What do British writer Salman Rushdie, American filmmaker Oliver Stone and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev have in common? Only this: all three are central figures in important stories that were in the news last week, and all three gave exclusive interviews to TIME, contained in this issue...
...Mikhail Gorbachev used his interview with TIME to reject speculation that he is on the verge of resigning. On two hours' notice last Friday afternoon, the Soviet leader called Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and editor-at-large Strobe Talbott to his Kremlin office for an 80-minute interview. Also present were historian Michael Beschloss, who is co-writing a book with Talbott on the Bush-Gorbachev relationship, and TIME's Felix Rosenthal. "He exuded a sense of complete control," says Kohan, "in what is clearly the most difficult crisis of his political career...
...Interview with Gorbachev...