The XXI century will be a сentury either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind. It is my conviction that all of us - all reasonable political leaders, all spiritual and ideological movements, all faiths - must help in this transition to a triumph of humanism and justice, in making the XXI century a century of a new human renaissance.
The first and the last USSR president, Mikhail Gorbachev, who stepped down on December 25, 1991, gave an interview to Interfax special correspondent Vyacheslav Terekhov ahead of the 30th anniversary of that event.
27 December 2021