2014

December 11, 2014

Gorbachev: The West and Russia must defrost relations before it is too late. Talks are vital, but neither side needs to lose face, says ex-Soviet leader

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev writes that tensions between Russia and the West have become so strained that the establishment of immediate dialogue is now essential in order to avoid potential catastrophe. In Ukraine, the parties must...

November 21, 2014

Mikhail Gorbachev: There's No Free Press in Russia — Nor Anywhere Else

Many people who send letters to the first and last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, still write on the envelope: "To the Secretary General of the Communist Party, Kremlin." The Moscow Times, № 5502...

November 8, 2014

Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarks at the Symposium of the New Policy Forum

 The experience of the 1980s testifies that, even in apparently hopeless situations, there has to be a way out. The situation in the world was then no less urgent and dangerous than now. Yet, we succeeded in reversing it – not just...

October 20, 2014

Former Soviet leader Gorbachev warns against new Cold War

(Reuters) - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has warned Western leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin against dragging the world into a new version of the Cold War he helped to end a quarter of a century ago. Gorbachev, recently in...

October 5, 2014

Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary with a foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev released in English

This book provides brief expositions of the central concepts in the field of Global Studies. Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev says, “The book is intelligent, rich in content and, I believe, necessary in our complex...

October 2, 2014

Round Table "Charity in Today’s Russia: Experience and New Challenges"

The International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation) together with Donors Forum, Russia, and with participation of SAMU Social Moskva charitable foundation held on October 1 a Round Table, dedicated to the...

September 5, 2014

Mikhail Gorbachev: “The duty of the leaders of Russia and the United States is to step over the personal.”

The following is an abridged version, published in Novaya Gazeta on September 5, of the Afterword from Mikhail Gorbachev’s book ‘After the Kremlin’, to be released in October.   Frankly, I never thought I would live to...

August 20, 2014

Mark Kramer. Reagan, Bush, and Gorbachev: Ending the Cold War

A presentation at the Expertise roundtable at the Gorbachev Foundation, June 24, 2014  Mark Kramer. Photo by Dmitry Belanovsky, GF In addressing the topic of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan and...

July 21, 2014

Mikhail Gorbachev’s letter to Participants in the 23d World Congress of Political Science, Montreal, 19 – 24 July, 2014

 Letter to Participants in the 23d World Congress of Political Science,  Montreal, 19 – 24 July, 2014   Dear friends,   I am glad to convey my greetings to the participants in the 23d World Congress of Political...

July 21, 2014

“Leaders step forward when their time comes. This is true, but now is the time for collective leadership”

Letter to Participants in the 23d World Congress of Political Science, Montreal, 19 – 24 July, 2014 Dear friends, I am glad to convey my greetings to the participants in the 23d World Congress of Political Science, who came to Montreal from...