Get an Address, Gorbachev Told
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MOSCOW — Postal clerks in the Siberian city of Chita have a message for former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev: Get a mailing address like everyone else.
Clerks at Chita’s central post office refused to accept a letter from a group of teachers addressed only to “Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow,” the Tass news agency reported Tuesday.
They insisted that since Gorbachev is now “an ordinary citizen,” letters to him should have a detailed address and ZIP code, the news agency said.
The former president and his wife, Raisa, were given a three-room apartment near Moscow State University after the Soviet Union’s dissolution in December.
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