Gorbie and Yeltsin Unite In Criticism of Putin's Initiatives
Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin Speak out Against Putin's Reforms
Both Yeltsin and Gorbachev still tend to view Moscow News weekly as their tribune of choice — a reputation, earned by this newspaper some 18 years ago, at the dawn of perestroika, when this paper, unavailable to the masses, used to hold a nationwide monopoly on free speech. 10 years later, when people in Russia got almost terminally fed up with truth and free speech, Moscow News Russian edition was reduced to near-oblivion. IMHO, were this weekly closed due to the 1998 financial crisis, no one would have seriously minded. Except for Yeltsin and Gorbachev, naturally.
These days, with Putin trying to reestablish the Soviet regime in all its deafness and muteness, there is suddenly a new hope for this publication. Yeltsin and Gorbachev have just proved that.
Both Yeltsin and Gorbachev still tend to view Moscow News weekly as their tribune of choice — a reputation, earned by this newspaper some 18 years ago, at the dawn of perestroika, when this paper, unavailable to the masses, used to hold a nationwide monopoly on free speech. 10 years later, when people in Russia got almost terminally fed up with truth and free speech, Moscow News Russian edition was reduced to near-oblivion. IMHO, were this weekly closed due to the 1998 financial crisis, no one would have seriously minded. Except for Yeltsin and Gorbachev, naturally.
These days, with Putin trying to reestablish the Soviet regime in all its deafness and muteness, there is suddenly a new hope for this publication. Yeltsin and Gorbachev have just proved that.
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