Death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, receives a cool response in Russia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Merkel's successor as chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has abandoned decades of detente to make Germany's foreign and defence stance much bolder.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told an educational forum that Gorbachev's"romanticism" about rapprochement with West had been misplaced.Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service and one of the"siloviki" or men of power close to Putin, said:"'Perestroika' has long become history, but today we all have to deal with its consequences.
"We are all orphans now. But not everyone realises it," said Alexei Venediktov, head of the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy, which closed down after coming under pressure over its coverage of the Ukraine war.When pro-democracy protests rocked Soviet-bloc nations in communist Eastern Europe in 1989, Gorbachev refrained from using force, breaking with the legacy of previous Soviet leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
His policy of"glasnost" allowed previously unthinkable criticism of the party and the state, but also emboldened nationalists who began to press for independence in the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and elsewhere.
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