Gorbachev Aims for Yeltsin’s Job
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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