USA Today Interviews Gorbachev
There is a fascinating, if too brief, interview with Mikhail Gorbachev in today's USA Today. During the interview, Gorbachev not only defends Putin's "reforms," but opines that the Soviet Union should have been preserved. Here's a snippet: Q:Many Russians criticize you because in their opinion, you gave away the Soviet empire and weakened Russian power. Is this characterization accurate?...