Does Mikhail Gorbachev have any supporters in Russia today?

The first and only Soviet president and father of Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, says that the great public support for Vladimir Putin can be explained by the ... read more

From my visits to Russia Gorbachev seems to be respected for bringing about the breakup of the USSR without a Civil War. A great diplomat. Where he fell down was as a domestic leader. He in a sense still remained a Communist at heart. He failed to implement many of the reforms he promised. read more

Mikhail Gorbachev: Russia's elder statesman still at home with power Almost a generation after leaving the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev blames himself – for reforming the Soviet Union so fast that it couldn't survive. read more

Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union and is the author of The New Russia. read more