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...massive deficits in order to pile on the pressure by spending billions of dollars on new weapons systems with which the Soviets struggled to keep up. There was, at the same time, plenty of statesmanlike accommodation, particularly in seizing the opportunities represented by the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist leadership to reduce tensions and negotiate new arms control agreements. When the Soviet empire began to crumble within a year of his leaving office, President Reagan's supporters credited him with having forced the collapse by piling on the military pressure. They also proclaim the economic boom of the 1990s...
...President Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who helped to bring about the end of the Cold War as foreign minister under Mikhail S. Gorbachev before Georgia became independent in 1991, stepped down as president of Georgia under pressure from public protests over corrupt elections, opposition groups and the military...
Kobritz, who serves as Gorbachev’s personal assistant during his trips to the U.S., found herself an unwitting participant in a spontaneous tutorial in Russian cheek-kissing etiquette put on by Gorbachev for his slew of aides and translators. In the elevator’s close quarters, Gorbachev leaned in to kiss Kobritz on the cheek—once, twice and an all-important third time. Taken aback, yet wanting to roll with the kisses, Kobritz responded, “For you, Mr. Gorbachev, four, five—as many as you want...
...across as a tart,” says Kobritz. Kobritz’s image also wasn’t helped by the fact that the article concluded with Gorbachev’s assessment of her make-up preferences. “This makeup they put on!” [Gorbachev] exclaimed. “My lips almost got stuck to her cheek...
...Processes are underway," as Mikhail Gorbachev used to say. Either Khodorkovsky fights by running for president, or else he cuts some form of deal and retreats quietly either into exile, or into a role less threatening to the Kremlin. I don't think the latter is likely, but I also don't see any good endgame here. Western investors, no matter what they're saying publicly, are scared out of their wits. For the Russian economy, this is the scariest moment since crash...