December

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...

December 16, 2008

Mikhail Gorbachev''s speech at the Non/fiction Book Fair on 28 November 2008.

The publication of the first five volumes of my Collected Works is, indeed, an important event for me. And I want to thank you for having displayed an interest in these books. I am sure these things are necessary. Of course, one must have a lot of...

December 16, 2008

On November 28 the NON/FICTION Book Fair held a launch of the first five volumes of M.S. Gorbachev’s Collected Works, Ves’ Mir Publishers, 2008.

November 28 was the third day of the Book Fair. On that day Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev came to his readers as a guest. The first...

December 15, 2008

A Press Release of the Gorbachev Foundation Press Office

    A Press Release of the Gorbachev Foundation Press Office Mikhail Gorbachev followed the advice of eye doctors and canceled his scheduled trip to Paris for a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. He is currently at...

December 15, 2008

From Fulton to Malta: How the Cold War Began and Ended. The Gorbachev Foundation announces the launch of its new publication presenting papers of an international conference hosted by the Gorbachev Foundation and the World Political Forum on March 1, 2006

The speakers at the international conference From Fulton to Malta: How the Cold War Began and Ended,  hosted by the Gorbachev Foundation and the World Political Forum on March 1, 2006, included prominent political leaders of the...

December 5, 2008

Gorbachev pays tribute to Alexy II

Former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev has called  the  death  of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II a great loss  and  said  he  was convinced the patriarch's name would make history.