Ignoble Prize for Candor

GEORGI ARBATOV

The Soviet foreign policy expert wryly commented to journalists on the laurels bestowed upon Mikhail Gorbachev and in the process proved just how institutionalized glasnost really is: "I am sure he deserved the Peace Prize, ((but)) I wouldn't think he deserved the Nobel Prize for Economics."

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