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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...

March 26, 2009

Gorbachev upbeat on U.S.-Russia ties after Obama visit

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said on Thursday he was more optimistic about the prospect of improving U.S.-Russian relations after meeting U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this month. Ties between the former Cold War enemies have...

March 24, 2009

Gorbachev calls for nations to cooperate

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who sought to put an end to the Cold War and found a partner for peace in Ronald Reagan, said Monday what the world needs now is more national leaders willing to collaborate on the big problems, rather than...

March 24, 2009

Gorbachev calls United States ripe for ''perestroika of your own''

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sees parallels between the Soviet Union of 1985-91 and the United States today.   “The election of Barack Obama represents the fact that the American people as a whole want change,” said...

March 23, 2009

Gorbachev on Afghanistan: "Move Toward Withdrawing"

The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union, conducted by Steve LeVine, BusinessWeek's foreign affairs writer in Washington. There is concern that some of the former Warsaw Pact...

March 17, 2009

Mikhail Gorbachev: Bring back the state

As the global financial and economic crisis grows deeper and more severe, we must all rethink some key issues, including the role of the state. One can already predict that the approach to the role of the government that has prevailed over the past...

March 12, 2009

Mikhail Gorbachev calls for world unity on Standard visit

Mikhail Gorbachev today used a visit to the Evening Standard to call for a new era of international co-operation - and urged America to stop acting as the world's policeman. Speaking to the newspaper, the former leader of the Soviet Union revealed...

March 5, 2009

Gorbachev criticizes Putin’s party

In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the...