I remember a day when I talked with a friend of mine regarding a chance to go to Vermont and spend a week or so on a slopes of the Okemo mountain.
-Do you want to ski or ride? My friend asked me. Of course I wanted to ride a snowboard for it is considered more [...]

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, Russian [...]