April
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 28, 2010
Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev: Perestroika set us free
What finally turned you against the Soviet system? We could no longer tolerate the disdainful attitude of official powers towards the common people. The people spent over half a century under total control. A country with abundant natural...
April 27, 2010
“Protect the Child” Project: On April 15, 2010, the Gorbachev Foundation held the Round Table themed “Systemic Long-Term Programmes as an Instrument of Social Policy for the Benefit of Children”
Care about children is definitely a national priority. Children are the first to suffer in times of social upheavals and economic crises. We should not turn a blind eye to the fact that in Russia many parents do not have enough resources and...
April 23, 2010
Mikhail Gorbachev: Helmut Kohl is a man of strong vitality and character. Mikhail Gorbachev’s interview on the occasion of Helmut Kohl’s 80th birthday
On April 3, 2010, German ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl celebrated his 80th birthday. In an interview to Izvestiya the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev talked about the history of relationship between the two leaders. Izvestia: Did the...
April 23, 2010
Mikhail Gorbachev. The Ice Has Broken
A remarkable sequence of events in April has turned the spotlight on the subject of nuclear disarmament and global security. I am referring to the signing by Presidents Obama and Medvedev of the New START treaty, the presentation of the Obama...
April 16, 2010
Latest publication: "Russia-2010: Russian Transformations in the Context of World Development." Collected articles. With a foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev
Logos, Moscow 2010, 308 pages.. ISBN 978-5-98704-459-9 Authors: V.G.Baranovsky (chapter 5), M.Yu.Golovnin (chapter 1) M.Yu.Kuvaldin (chapter 1), E.Sh.Gontmakher (chapter 2), M.S.Gorbachev (foreword), V.B.Kuvaldin...
April 16, 2010
A letter to Mikhail Gorbachev from the manager of Finnish magazine "Apu" Tuomas Marjamaki
Helsinki 10th March 2010 Dear Mr. Gorbatchev I decided to send a photo, which I have taken on 9* September 1990 in Helsinki, in front of Embassy of Soviet Union. It was two days after my 12'' birthday and I had got a new camera as present. I was...
April 7, 2010
Mikhail Gorbachev: Debates to begin after Russia-U.S. arms pact signed
Mikhail Gorbachev, who signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with George H.W. Bush in 1991, shares his views on the new strategic arms treaty with Interfax. The news that Russia and the United States are due to sign a new treaty on the...
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May 20, 2018
The Round Table: "From the Prague Spring to Perestroika"
October 27, 2017
Round Table “The 1917 Russian Revolution for Our Country and the World: 100 Years’ Retrospect”
October 5, 2017
The Expertise Round Table. Perception of Russia across the East and West: Memory, Identity and Conflicts. International Study of Images of Russia across Eurasia: Results and Discussion