Alexander J. Motyl: Interpreting Gorbachev’s very mixed signals
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev gestures during the presentation of his new book "After the Kremlin" in a book store in Moscow on Nov. 20, 2014.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's response to Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter plane on Nov. 24th nicely reveals the contradictions on which so much of contemporary Russian political thinking is based.
