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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...

August 22, 2011

Mikhail Gorbachev. Lessons from the U.S.S.R. coup attempt

Twenty years ago this weekend, a group of Communist Party Politburo members and Soviet government officials attempted a coup d’état. They created an unconstitutional “committee on the state of emergency,” isolated the Soviet...

August 19, 2011

Mikhail Gorbachev: We will continue to move towards democracy.

 Jonathan Steele in Moscow The former president looks back on his role in the fall of the Soviet Union 20 years ago in an exclusive Guardian interview Politicians rarely admit mistakes, but Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev always was in a...

August 15, 2011

Mikhail Gorbachev: I would start perestroika in the same way today

In a SPIEGEL interview, Mikhail Gorbachev, 80, discusses the last days of the Soviet Union, his failure to resolve problems with the Communist Party and the ensuing bloodshed he says still troubles him today. He also accuses Vladimir Putin of...

August 10, 2011

Ambassador Jack Matlock’s letter to Russian TV channel NTV

Dear Ms. Diveeva, Thank you for your invitation to participate in your studio discussion of the 1991 August Putsch. Unfortunately, I will not be able to come to Moscow for this event since I do not have time to make the arrangements for a visa and...

August 5, 2011

Mikhail Gorbachev Congratulates U.S. President Baraсk Obama on His 50th Birthday

Dear Mr. President, Please accept my sincere congratulations on your 50th birthday. This is perhaps the first real jubilee in a person’s life, and it has coincided with an important stage in your presidency. At our very first meeting with you...