In this interview excerpt, Adrien Meisch, Luxembourg Ambassador to Bonn from 1983 to 1995 and Ambassador to Moscow from 1995 to 1998, describes his appointment at the Embassy in Moscow in 1995.

In this interview excerpt, Adrien Meisch, Luxembourg Ambassador to Moscow from 1995 to 1998, describes the political and economic situation in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the 1990s. He particularly mentions his encounters with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999, Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, and Anatoly Chubais, one of the instigators of the economic reforms introduced in the 1990s in Russia.