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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...

The Expertise Round Table – presentation by Mark Kramer themed “Reagan, Bush and Gorbachev: Talks between the Superpowers and the End of the Cold War”

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...

Interview with M.S. Gorbachev to the BBC Russian Service

May 21, 2009

Gorbachev agrees John Paul II should be declared as saint

Former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev said he agrees that the former head of the Catholic Church John Paul II should be canonized. "I think he should be. He was an amazing person. A humanist, I am ready to give him a thumbs up," Gorbachev told...

May 13, 2009

Gorbachev: Europe misunderstands Russia

Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday that Europe still misunderstands Russia nearly two decades after the Soviet collapse, and he dismissed as nonsense portrayals of his country as an aggressive force. Gorbachev, who resigned as the Soviet Union's last...