August

August 25, 2006

Leaders ignoring climate crisis: Gorby

World leaders are ignoring issues such as climate change and over population despite the threats they pose to the "very foundations" of human existence on earth, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev says.      Mr Gorbachev...

August 24, 2006

Gorbachev warns Australia against going nuclear

MARK COLVIN: Just a fortnight after John Howard suggested that Australia should consider nuclear power, the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has expressed grave concern at the idea. In Brisbane for this weekend's Earth Dialogues forum, Mr...

August 20, 2006

Heidi Przybyla. "Gorbachev Praises Bush''s Father and Clintons, Scolds McCain"

 Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that he much preferred the first President Bush to his son.      Gorbachev, in an interview on Bloomberg TV's ``Political Capital with Al Hunt'' scheduled...

August 18, 2006

Russia: Gorbachev Reflects On The Legacy Of The Coup

PRAGUE, August 18, 2006 (RFE/RL) --Fifteen years after the failed coup that triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union and transformed his own life, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev talks to RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service about the events...