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.
22 June 2009 The First Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR: 20 Years Later.
On May 21 the Gorbachev Foundation held a discussion on the historic role of the first free alternative election in the USSR and the First Congress of People’s Deputies that opened in Moscow on May 25, 1989.
