journalist Monica Attard on covering the empire Gorbachev allowed to collapse
- Written by: Monica Attard, Co-Director, Centre For Media Transition, University of Technology Sydney
Mikhail Gorbachev addresses American business executives in 1990.David Longstreath/APIt’s unlikely that in 1970, when I was 12, I could have imagined myself covering the collapse of an empire. Nor could I have dreamed that 51 years later, my passion for Russia would still be alive, if battered by its barbaric invasion of its neighbour,...
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