Exhibits Grapple with Gorbachev, Yeltsin’s Legacies
28 January 2011 | Issue 4565
This spring, the Moscow House of Photography commemorates the 80th birthdays of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last head of state, and Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first president, with a pair of exhibits on the two leaders’ lives and legacies.
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