Twenty years ago, the communist Soviet government in Russia launched a coup against then-President Mikhail Gorbachev. Their attempt to oust the Western-leaning president failed, but lead to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. just a few weeks later. How much has the former Soviet state changed in the last two decades? We’re speaking with Steve Rosenberg, who was a correspondent for our partner, the BBC, at the time of the coup, and is still reporting there now.
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