Thursday, March 15, 2018

Russian news

Below is a link to an article in The Irish Times yesterday. It is written by Seamus Martin, a former Moscow correspondence for the paper. He is critical of how the UK is handling the Srkipal affair.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/unlikely-that-vladimir-putin-behind-skripal-poisoning-1.3425736#.WqmDwZ-OC3o.mailto

On this date, March 15, 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was elected President of the Soviet Union. He was the last person to hold the position.



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