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THEN Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev pictured in 1989.
(AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

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PETER YOUNG: Gorbachev reforms in Russia short-lived

AMIDST the huge international media coverage of the passing last week of the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, perhaps one of the most telling headlines was one by the BBC calling him ‘a warm-hearted, decent and generous man’.

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