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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 25, 2010

Mikhail Gorbachev meets Moscow State University students

On March 24, 2010, Mikhail Gorbachev gave a lecture entitled “Russia and Today’s World” to the students of Moscow State University (MGU). Attending the meeting were MGU’s rector, Viktor Sadovnichy, and students of Philology...

March 22, 2010

International Conference “Responding to the Challenge of the Times” to mark the 25th anniversary since the Start of Perestroika held at the Gorbachev-Foundation

On Friday, March 19, 2010, the Gorbachev-Foundation held the International Conference “Responding to the Challenge of the Times”. The conference, opened by the Foundation’s President, Mikhail Gorbachev, was part of a...

March 22, 2010

The Gorbachev Foundation launched a new book “Responding to the Challenge of the Times”

The book Responding to the Challenge of the Times. The foreign policy of Perestroika: Documentary Evidence. Based on Transcripts of Conversations between M.S. Gorbachev and Foreign Leaders and other Materials (Ves Mir Publishers, М., 2010...

March 16, 2010

Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika at 25

PERESTROIKA, the series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since. Today the controversy has taken on a new urgency — not just because of the 25th anniversary...