RIP Mikhail Sergeevich, last leader of the Soviet Union

This post brought to you by the blog as memorial scrapbook model of blogging.

This post also dedicated to everyone who is going to go off to college with one set of ideas about the world, get immersed in a new language and culture, and come out with really different mental flowering.

Maybe RantWoman will work in some reflections about 3 months in Leningrad / St Petersburg on a study-abroad  trip at a time when many ordinary Russians were willing to line up for the more open evening paper but  also liked to say "Enough glasnost. Time for perestroika." Maybe 

AP / Russian media piece from the Seattle Times

PBS Retrospective

CNN Clip of Larry King Interview

Deutsche Welle

RFE RL Obituary

A young Ukrainian woman

1992 address at Harvard

Digression: Roman Goncharenko on Russia Ukraine war 2015 already

PS Look for Togzhan Kasenova item on Gorbachev and Kazakh anti-nuclear activist