FORMER SOVIET PRESIDENT GORBACHEV GIVES A PRESS CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW.
The former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev gestures as he answers journalists' questions during a press-conference in Moscow December 20, 2000. Gorbachev guardedly praised President Vladimir Putin and tried to calm fears that U.S.-Russian relations would get cooler under President-elect George W. Bush's new administration.
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