The Kremlin won't allow anyone to touch Gorbachev. Putin has been very respectful toward Gorbachev and Yeltsin - cuz Putin wants the same level of respect towards him from his successor. (Said differently, Putin is changing Russia's political culture).
--- Simon Huxtable <jetfromgladiators at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Of course, this is the LDPR's job: suggesting wild
> initiatives that have no chance of becoming law
> (Chris
> has told me that Zhirinovsky's solution to Russia's
> demographic crisis is to legalise bigamy).
> Imagine the fun if you could put a head of state on
> trial for being the source of "all our woes",
> though.
>
> Simon
>
>
> Russian MPs Want to Put Gorbachev on Trial
>
> Created: 01.07.2005 12:58 MSK (GMT +3), Updated:
> 12:58
> MSK
>
> MosNews
>
> Deputies from the outspoken nationalist LDPR faction
> of the Russian State Duma on Friday said they will
> prepare a criminal suit against former Soviet leader
> Mikhail Gorbachev, the Interfax news agency reports.
>
> Deputy Sergei Abeltsev said at the Friday session of
> the lower house that he wanted to put forward an
> initiative to cancel ex-president Gorbachev’s
> immunity
> and to launch a criminal probe against him. Abeltsev
> called Gorbachev “the main initiator of the Soviet
> Union’s collapse and the main culprit of ”all our
> woes“.
>
> Another deputy, Victor Ilyukhin of the Communist
> Party
> Faction, supported the initiative and said that he
> would gladly work on the draft of the resolution. He
> added that he possessed information that could lead
> to
> the instigation of a criminal case against
> Gorbachev.
>
> ”These facts need a lawyer’s appraisal,“ Ilyukhin
> said.
>
>
>
>
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