WHICH PRISON DO YOU WANT TO GO TO, MR. GORBACHEV?

Speaking in Orenburg, Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that former Soviet president Gorbachev should be deciding whether he wants to be confined to Lefortovo prison or some other penal institution rather than whether he should run for president, Rossiiskaya gazeta said May 4. Zhirinovsky added that the entire current leadership should be dispatched to prison camps in the northern part of the country, an idea he had earlier developed in his most recent book “Last Train to the North.”

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