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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...

September 24, 2009

U.S.-Russia cooperation can save world from nuke threat - Gorbachev

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Thursday that cooperation between Moscow and Washington in missile defense could help resolve issues of nuclear proliferation. In an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta published on Thursday...

September 24, 2009

Mikhail Gorbachev. Two First Steps on Nuclear Weapons

Is there a link between the two events? I believe there is. Yet initial comments by many political figures and journalists have for the most part ignored this key relationship. Instead, many are asserting that canceling the Eastern European missile...