On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Chris Doss wrote:
> press conference with Gorbachev, and damn does he get a lot of bile spewed
> in his direction...Interesting that all the people cursing him are
> emigrants, whereas the people actually living in Russia mostly thank him .
> . . the positive stuff ... is the majority
That's a huge change from 5 years ago, no? You used to say often that G was reviled in Russia and only respected by Westerners. Is he again a respected figure inside Russia today? Do people now associate him with Putin's restoration rather than thinking of him as Yeltsin's Wegbereiter?
Michael