14 June, 2010

Gorbachev: Russia needs freedom to succeed

 

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was the the author of the bold reforms which triggered the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, told Reuters in an interview that Russia now needed a fresh wave of "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring).Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has appealed to the Kremlin to make Russia more democratic, saying president Medvedev's push to modernize the country would not succeed otherwise.

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