October

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...

October 21, 2016

Dialogues about Democracy. Civil Society and Forms of Civic Engagement

On 20October 2016, the Gorbachev Foundation hosted another seminar in the Dialogues about Democracy series, co-organised by the Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Moscow Office.   The seminar was themed Civil Society and...

October 12, 2016

Alexey Arbatov: The Ominous End of the Russia-U.S. Plutonium Agreement

Alexey Arbatov Moscow is trying to rattle Washington by projecting its political and military might as the most dangerous crisis develops in U.S.-Russian relations since the Cold War era. The suspension of the 2000 plutonium agreement may threaten a...

October 10, 2016

Mikhail Gorbachev: The world has reached a dangerous point, dialogue must be resumed

Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev said that Russia and the United States must get over mutual distrust and restart negotiations beginning with the nuclear issue. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia and the United States must get...

October 10, 2016

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Address to Participants in the International Conference The Legacy of the Reykjavik Summit

Today is the final day of the international conference taking place in Reykjavik to mark the 30thanniversary of the US-Soviet Summit that took place in 1986 in the capital of Iceland. At the summit, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and USPresident...

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...