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Mikhail Gorbachev seated in a formal setting, wearing a dark pinstripe suit and striped tie with a Soviet lapel pin, attending a meeting in Paris, October 1985.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin stands at a podium with microphones, smiling, in front of a U.S. flag during a news conference at the White House.

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Mikhail Gorbachev seated in a formal setting, wearing a dark pinstripe suit and striped tie with a Soviet lapel pin, attending a meeting in Paris, October 1985.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost reforms created a political climate that allowed...

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin stands at a podium with microphones, smiling, in front of a U.S. flag during a news conference at the White House.

Boris Yeltsin

Yeltsin's reforms became unbridled excess in a new Russia.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Official portrait of Vladimir Putin.

President of Russia, The Kremlin, Moscow