Gorbachev Leaning Toward Presidential Run

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the more he thinks about it, the more he’s likely to run in Russia’s June presidential election.

“It is an issue that I examine all the time. I think about it all the time and I am leaning increasingly towards a positive decision,” Gorbachev said in Moscow in an interview with French television Sunday night.

Gorbachev, who stepped down in December 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved, has said in the past that he was considering running for Boris Yeltsin’s job.