August

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...