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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...

July 28, 2015

Mikhail Gorbachev. “If you don’t get rid of nuclear weapons, then sooner or later they will be used”

Interview Conducted by Joachim Mohr and Matthias Schepp   In a SPIEGEL interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discusses morals and politics in the nuclear age, the crisis in Russian-American relations and his fear that an...

July 22, 2015

Russia: Egon Bahr and Mikhail Gorbachev call for new Ostpolitik (in German)

Russland-Kurs: Bahr und Gorbatschow fordern deutsche Eisbrecher-Mission Das Bündnis für versöhnliche Töne gegenüber Russland ist breit an diesem Dienstagabend, Parteigrenzen zählen nicht. Das zeigt schon die...

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...