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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...
August 27, 2008
Gorbachev warns the world against new split
The first and last president of the former USSR, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev, told Itar-Tass that in the wake of Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states he cannot but share some ideas of the...
August 22, 2008
Mikhail Gorbachev’s The New York Times article: readers’ reaction
Mr. Gorbachev, I am an American citizen with her eyes wide open to world events and my government's involvement in them. I am not easily fooled by my government's practices. I have always had great respect for you sir, but never more so than now.
August 21, 2008
Mikhail Gorbachev. Russia Never Wanted a War
By MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Moscow THE acute phase of the crisis provoked by the Georgian forces’ assault on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, is now behind us. But how can one erase from memory the horrifying scenes of the nighttime rocket...
August 13, 2008
A Path to Peace in the Caucasus. By Mikhail Gorbachev
MOSCOW -- The past week's events in South Ossetia are bound to shock and pain anyone. Already, thousands of people have died, tens of thousands have been turned into refugees, and towns and villages lie in ruins. Nothing can justify this loss of...
May 20, 2018
The Round Table: "From the Prague Spring to Perestroika"
October 27, 2017
Round Table “The 1917 Russian Revolution for Our Country and the World: 100 Years’ Retrospect”
October 5, 2017
The Expertise Round Table. Perception of Russia across the East and West: Memory, Identity and Conflicts. International Study of Images of Russia across Eurasia: Results and Discussion