Gorbachev Aims for Yeltsin’s Job
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev made clear Wednesday that he wants to replace Boris N. Yeltsin as Russian president, possibly in 1996 elections.
“I pay a lot of attention to that subject, and I cannot exclude that,” he said when asked at a news conference about running in the country’s 1996 balloting.
Gorbachev, in the United Arab Emirates for a conference on information technology, resigned as president of the Soviet Union as it broke up in 1991, leaving Yeltsin as president of Russia.
Gorbachev--who has sharply criticized his former ally Yeltsin--said he would promote new democratic reforms, freedom of choice and a mixed economy.
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