RUSHES: Mikhail Gorbachev interviewed by Jon Snow

Mikhail Gorbachev interviewed by Jon Snow; Interview main camera part 6 of 10 ENGLAND: London: INT Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Leader) interview SOT (voice of interpreter heard in background - English and Russian on separate audio tracks). Q - Attacks from political opponents ongoing. What are the threats to perestroika? The right wing or the radicals? A - In every country where opposition parties exist you will hear calls for the resignation of the government. Democratic process in USSR, pluralism. Democracy underway in the USSR, we don't have enough of a political culture yet, criticism from colonel, have tried to push forward perestroika by adopting laws, creating framework, recently a group of American experts who visited the USSR concluded that all political activity in USSR was in Moscow, now change is happening all over the Soviet Union, support of the people, people want change that improves their lives, support for radical reform among all groups - left, right and centre