Covering Gorbachev: AP remembers his wit, wisdom, warmth
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Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev toasts with a small glass of lemon-flavored vodka at a going-away party for his staff on Dec. 26, 1991, the day after his nationally televised address in which he announced his resignation as president, in Moscow. Associated Press correspondent Brian Friedman, at back center with glasses Known in his career as a teetotaler and for his anti-alcohol campaigns, Gorbachev said with a twinkle in his eye, "You think I can't do it? Now I can afford to!" (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Associated Press staff members Sergei Fedotov, left, Lynn Berry and Vladimir Kondrashov, right, pose for a photo with Mikhail Gorbachev, second from left, on Nov. 27, 2008, after an interview at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, left, Communist Party No. 2 Vladimir Ivashko, center, and Associated Press reporter Andrew Katell, right, in sunglasses, on Moscow's Red Square, April 1991, as the officials made their way to Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum on the 121st anniversary of Lenin's birth. When Mikhail Gorbachev died at age 91, Associated Press journalists began sharing their Gorby stories from the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath. (AP Photo)Associated Press reporters Julia Rubin and Vladimir Isachenkov pose for a photo after interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in August 1996. When Mikhail Gorbachev died at age 91, Associated Press journalists began sharing their Gorby stories from the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath. (AP Photo)Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev puts his arm around Associated Press reporter David Rising at the end of an interview with AP journalists in Berlin, on Nov. 22, 2011. Gorbachev was in Berlin to announce that the city would be the next host of the Mikhail Gorbachev Award. As genial as he was thoughtful, after our formal interview was over Gorbachev seemed in no hurry to wrap up, putting his arm warmly over my shoulder and continued to share his thoughts on the end of the Cold War and the current state of democracy in Russia, Rising said. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev toasts with a small glass of lemon-flavored vodka at a going-away party for his staff on Dec. 26, 1991, the day after his nationally televised address in which he announced his resignation as president, in Moscow. Associated Press correspondent Brian Friedman, at back center with glasses Known in his career as a teetotaler and for his anti-alcohol campaigns, Gorbachev said with a twinkle in his eye, "You think I can't do it? Now I can afford to!" (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
