MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the policy of glasnost was crucial to reforms in the Soviet Union. "I am also scolded for glasnost.

- What is your biggest achievement in life? - Perestroika, of course, and everything that goes with it. It is my profound conviction that perestroika was necessary, and that we were moving in the ...

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