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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...
April 26, 2011
Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change
In recognition of President Gorbachev’s 80th birthday, the founding President of Green Cross and his lifelong commitment to sustainability, GCI has published a book honouring the former President of the Soviet...
April 22, 2011
Forward To The Future In Quest Of Global Security
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN (IDN) - Europeans are finding it hard to keep their heads above water as tidal waves of an overwhelming desire for participation in governance pound at the Arab shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The challenge thrown down by...
April 21, 2011
Irina Virganskaya on her father, Mikhail Gorbachev: «Never in my life have I seen you scared»
You know, I’m not particularly keen on reading or hearing anything about you: it all stirs up memories and cuts with lies like a knife at an exposed heart. Still, in the past few months on the eve of your birthday, I read and listened...
April 7, 2011
Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarks opening the Munich Conference of the New Policy Forum
I welcome all participants – a very representative cross-section, that augurs well for a good, meaningful debate. The subject of our conference – Security for the Global World: A European Answer – was chosen several months ago but...
April 4, 2011
Russian TV Channel One showed Gorbachev celebration party
See more details on Channel One website http://www.1tv.ru/anons/id=166911(in Russian only)
April 1, 2011
Pavel Palazhchenko: Perestroika made the world a better place
Gorbachev’s persona was the catalyst behind perestroika, shared Pavel Palazhchenko, a Soviet and now Russian diplomat, who remains Mikhail Gorbachev's personal interpreter. The interpreter worked with Mikhail Gorbachev for 27 years because he...
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