September
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 26, 2011
Russia risks six 'lost years' under Putin, says Gorbachev
Russia risks six lost years when Vladimir Putin returns to the Kremlin if he does not undertake wholesale change of its political system, the Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Monday. Gorbachev wrote in a commentary for the Novaya...
September 26, 2011
Mikhail Gorbachev: Changes are needed at the level of changing the system
- We had long been following this process and for some time it has already been clear that Putin and Medvedev had agreed everything between themselves. Moreover, now it becomes clear that they agreed long ago, even more than a year ago – they...
September 21, 2011
Round Table Discussion “Is the Cold War Over?” / Meeting with David Hoffman at the Gorbachev Foundation
On 21 September 2011, the Gorbachev Foundation hosted Round Table Discussion “Is the Cold War Over?” / Meeting with David Hoffman, Foreign Editor at The Washington Post, a Cold War researcher, and winner of numerous journalistic awards.
September 19, 2011
On 19 September 2011, the Gorbachev Foundation held a seminar themed “Meeting the Challenges of Urban Diversity in an Age of Large Scale Migration"
The Seminar was held as part of the joint programme Meeting the Challenges of Cultural Diversity in a Global World between the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation) and the Woodrow Wilson...
September 1, 2011
To all readers of the Gorbachev Foundation’s website
Dear readers, An international contest to create a globally recognized logo for human rights has entered its final stage. The Human Rights Logo-Initiative received an unprecedented amount of submissions; Top 10 logo designs were shortlisted. Online...
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