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    Russia(gate/bot) Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the USSR, has passed away.

    The Ukrainians were interested in some kind of loose confederation arrangement. Thus, couldn't an EU-style arrangement have been worked out?
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    Russia(gate/bot) Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the USSR, has passed away.

    The Common European Home, if you will. The August plotters really fucked things up from a Soviet perspective. From a Western perspective, though, what they did was great.
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    Russia(gate/bot) Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the USSR, has passed away.

    The 1990s were Hell for Russia in part because the Soviet economy was to tightly interconnected and in part because Russia had swindlers rather than genuine statesmen to lead it during this time. When oligarchs were looting the country while ordinary people were suffering, then it makes sense...
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    Russia(gate/bot) Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the USSR, has passed away.

    Probabbly.
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    Russia(gate/bot) Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the USSR, has passed away.

    May he RIP. :( Living to age 91.5 is quite impressive. It would be similar to me living to late 2083 or early 2084.
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