The US and Russia are preparing for “many long years of confrontation,” according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Writing on Wednesday in the Russian state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the 83-year-old delivered his grim assessment, warning that the frosty relations between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin could have “terrible consequences”. The "new Cold War", as Gorbachev recently described increasing tensions between Washington and Moscow , was brought about by the crisis in Ukraine , following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its military encroachment into the state on the side of pro-Russian separatists. The elder statesmen, whose policies of perestroika and...
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