Obama, Gorbachev meet

MOSCOW, July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama met former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the father of Glasnost, Tuesday, the second day of his trip to Moscow.

"Then the Gorbachev-Obama meeting was brief, but interesting -- they talked to each other and apparently were interested and said that it would be good to continue communication in the future, and Obama perhaps wanted to meet Gorbachev again in Moscow," Pavel Vashchenko, head of the international relations department at the Gorbachev Foundation, told Itar-TASS. "It is very interesting, of course, for Gorbachev to have a conversation with the American president."

Gorbachev told the Russian news agency he had "a "very positive" attitude toward the U.S. leader.

The Gorbachev Foundation, also known as the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies, was founded by Gorbachev in January 1992. It was one of the first independent think tanks in post-Soviet Russia.

Gorbachev is president and his daughter, Irina Virganskaya, is vice president.