Gorbachev Reflects On The Coup
Sunday, August 20th, 2006PRAGUE, 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, [...]