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January 30, 2017

Mikhail Gorbachev: 'It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War'

The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss.   But no problem is more urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race. Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be...

June 24, 2014

The Expertise Round Table – presentation by Mark Kramer themed “Reagan, Bush and Gorbachev: Talks between the Superpowers and the End of the Cold War”

On June 24, 2014 the Gorbachev Foundation held a round table, with Mark Kramer, Director of the Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, appearing as a guest...

The Expertise Round Table – presentation by Mark Kramer themed “Reagan, Bush and Gorbachev: Talks between the Superpowers and the End of the Cold War”

March 11, 2013

Interview with M.S. Gorbachev to the BBC Russian Service

In an interview with the BBC he called on President Vladimir Putin "not to be afraid of his own people".   Mr Gorbachev also criticised Mr Putin's inner circle, saying it was full of "thieves and corrupt officials".   The laws include...

Interview with M.S. Gorbachev to the BBC Russian Service

June 29, 2007

Statement from Mikhail Gorbachev on support for Sochi 2014

 «Russia continues to change and grow. Such a process is never easy in the world's largest country but I am confident that the Games would serve as a source of progress, boosting our all important transition and bringing all the Russian...

June 6, 2007

Gorbachev to U.S.: Let''s not repeat the Cold War

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday that U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Europe are arrogant and threaten to usher in a new Cold War.      Speaking to CNN from Moscow as the Group of Eight...

June 3, 2007

Gorbachev criticises US «empire»

 The former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has blamed the US for the current state of relations between Russia and the West.           In a BBC interview, Mr Gorbachev said that the Russians were...