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                                    Philippe Faure
Self (voice)
 
                                    Stephen F. Cohen
Self
 
                                    Grigoriy Yavlinskiy
Self
 
                                    Andrei Gratchev
Self
 
                                    Mikhail Gorbachev
Self
 
                                    Algirdas Brazauskas
Self
 
                                    Eduard Shevardnadze
Self
 
                                    Alexander Yakovlev
Self
 
                                    Valentin Pavlov
Self
 
                                    Gennady Burbulis
Self
 
                                    Kazimira Prunskienė
Self
 
                                    Roland Dumas
Self
 
                                    Noam Chomsky
Self
 
                                    Vyacheslav Generalov
Self
 
                                    Oleg Baklanov
Self
 
                                    Anatoly Chernyaev
Self
 
                                    Ivan Silayev
Self
 
                                    Lech Wałęsa
Self