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‘Brezhnev’s assassination wouldn’t have changed history’

Published 22 Jan, 2009 11:29 | Updated 22 Jan, 2009 14:29

Had Brezhnev been assassinated in 1969, the event wouldn’t have changed the way the USSR was governed, says Sergey Medvedev, a political analyst at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.

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