Gorbachev criticises US for "empire-building"

In a recent and rather rare interview with BBC, former leader of the now defunct Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev publicly criticised the US for "empire-building" and also being responsible for the current state of relations between Russia and the West which he thinks is "bad". Mikhail Gorbachev was also the winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.

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