MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty years after a failed coup hastened the end of the Soviet Union, many Russians look back with regret and cynicism, underscoring the ambivalence many feel for the new Russia and their uncertainty about the future.
"I remember the tanks rolling towards the centre of the city, the disorder," said Mikhail Shchilev, 59, steps away from the Kremlin walls.
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