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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...

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...

July 31, 2007

Gorbachev: US makes strategic mistakes

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Friday laid the blame for the current low in Russia's relations with the West squarely on Washington, accusing the United States of making major mistakes that had thrown the world into a period of...

July 31, 2007

Gorbachev defends Putin''''s methods

Last Soviet leader says Russia's president, authoritarian at times, is trying to save the country for a democratic future.      Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose reforms played a major role in freeing the...

July 11, 2007

The speech of prof. F. Fukuiama at the Round Table devoted to the problems of international policy and perspective of Russian-American relations

Thank you very much for that very kind introduction. I am really very honored to be invited to the Gorbachev Foundation and to meet Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev in person.      I have to say that when he was the General...