PRINCETON: So, Mikhail Gorbachev has filmed a television commercial for Pizza Hut. Nowadays, politicians everywhere seem to want to "cash in" once their days in power are finished. Even more revealing than Gorbachev’s presence in this commercial, however, is the notion that the advertisements will not be shown in Russia. Yesterday’s leader of the vanished Soviet Union, it seems, is an unwelcome ghost in today’s Russia.
PRINCETON: So, Mikhail Gorbachev has filmed a television commercial for Pizza Hut. Nowadays, politicians everywhere seem to want to "cash in" once their days in power are finished. Even more revealing than Gorbachev’s presence in this commercial, however, is the notion that the advertisements will not be shown in Russia. Yesterday’s leader of the vanished Soviet Union, it seems, is an unwelcome ghost in today’s Russia.