From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Gorbachev Reflects On The Coup

by Islander on August 20, 2006

PRAGUE, August 18, 2006 (RFE/RL) –Fifteen years after the failed coup that triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union and transformed his own life, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev talks to RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service about the events of August 1991 and their legacy. RFE/RL: In his annual address to the Federal Assembly in 2005, [...]

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