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Coverage of Mikhail Gorbachev by AmericanTelevision, 1984-1986--by Beth Knobel,postdoctoral fellow, Russian Research Center.Coolidge Hall, Room...
Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail S. Gorbachev will visit Harvard in May, University officials said yesterday...
...brave new world for Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev. In 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...
There are personal compensations for the loss of power. Gorbachev: "Raisa Maximovna and I have more time together. The rest doesn't matter. Above all, we appreciate that over all these years, we have stayed like friends." Raisa: "To understand Mikhail Sergeyevich, you have to understand where he started from and what he has managed to do. And if you could only know how we survived over the past seven years, how many sleepless nights we spent, how much worry there has been." Gorbachev: "It is humiliating to complain...
What is an out-of-work former superpower leader to do? MIKHAIL GORBACHEV is taking a cue from Richard Nixon and picking up a pen. A very special pen. Gorbachev has signed on as a journalist with the prestigious Italian daily La Stampa, which plans to publish 10 of his global ruminations a year. His first piece, a defense of socialism, was picked up by the New York Times this week. Gorbachev added a historical flourish as he signed his new employment contract in Moscow. Pausing dramatically, he noted that he had once used the same pen to sign...