Extract from David Remnick’s Interview with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, 1 Aug. 1991 [Quote]
Gorbachev advisor Shakhnzarov ... keeps a copy of the Federalist Papers on his desk, and he says that both he and Gorbachev have read and admire Alexander Hamilton’s essay on the need for a federal taxation system ... But Russian republic Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev cites a different American...