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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...

April 29, 2009

Mikhail Gorbachev. What Role for the G-20?

The Group of 20 has held two summit meetings, including the recent one in London. It is now an established forum, a recognition, belated in my view, that the world has changed and that the old institutions have not kept pace with rapidly evolving...

April 27, 2009

Dropping the Nuclear Bomb

President Obama's call for a "world without nuclear weapons," and his agreement with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to work towards just that, have helped revive an issue that slipped off the foreign-policy agenda following the end of the Cold...

April 24, 2009

Gorbachev: The prospect of a new arms race seems realistic now but Russia and U.S. could make progress in nuclear disarmament

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said he hopes that contacts between Russia and the U.S. on nuclear disarmament would lead to positive changes.             "Unfortunately, no...

April 20, 2009

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Opening Speech at the conference Overcoming Nuclear Dangers, Rome, 16 April 2009

First, let me express my condolences and sympathy to the people and government of Italy after the recent tragic earthquake that struck Abruzzo.  Since our first conference on Overcoming Nuclear Dangers, held at Harvard in December...

April 17, 2009

“Russia and the US: the Way We See Each Other”. On April 9, 2009 the Gorbachev Foundation together with the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Research Center convened a Round Table.

The Round Table “Russia and the US: the Way We See Each Other” is an event in a series organized by the Gorbachev Foundation and the Kennan Institute of...

April 2, 2009

Gorbachev blasts NATO eastward expansion

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized NATO's eastward expansion and the failure by Western powers to keep their promise not to deploy military bases near Russia's borders. Gorbachev said in an interview with Germany's Bild newspaper...