April

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...