2017
December 14, 2017
'Russian Lessons for Reagan' Launch at Gorbachev Foundation Reunites Old Friends
Tuesday’s event at the Gorbachev Foundation was supposed to be a typically mundane book launch. But the presentation of the Russian language version of Suzanne Massie’s “Trust But Verify: Russian Lessons for Reagan” turned...
October 17, 2017
Mikhail Gorbachev: My plea to the presidents of Russia and the United States
This December will mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between the Soviet Union and United States on the elimination of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles. This was the start of the process of radically cutting back nuclear...
September 5, 2017
New biography of Mikhail Gorbachev by W.Taubman has been realeased
U.S. publisher W.W.Norton & Company has released a new biography of Mikhail Gorbachev by WIlliam Taubman Gorbachev.His Life and Times. The book can be purchased on Amazon...
July 22, 2017
New Book: Encyclopedia of the Barents Region. With a Foreword by Thorvald Stoltenberg and Mikhail Gorbachev
The Encyclopedia of the Barents Region contains comprehensive knowledge about the history, economy, and culture of the Barents Region. The Encyclopedia is an outcome of an international academic project with participants mainly from Norway...
July 3, 2017
Mikhail Gorbachev’s message to participants in the unveiling ceremony for the Gorbachev and Reagan sculpture
First of all, I would like to thank you for the invitation to attend this ceremony. I appreciate the efforts of those who initiated this project and of the sculptor Alexander Bourganov who made it a reality. I believe this project looks not just to...
April 20, 2017
Mikhail Gorbachev’s Essay About Vladimir Putin
TIME 100 asked Mikhail Gorbachev to write a brief essay with his thoughts about Vladimir Putin. Below is the full text and a link to the magazine’s website. Faced with a crisis inherited from his predecessor, the President of...
April 17, 2017
Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev
He has become old. Supported by his walking stick, he slowly and laboriously drags himself out of his office and walks a few steps to the brightly lit conference room – to the big, long table. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of...
April 11, 2017
International Conference “Girlhood in Turbulent Times: Gender Equality as a Cultural Norm and a Social Practice”, 7 April 2017
The current generation of teenage and adolescent girls is extremely diverse and defies understanding by adults. Russia is not unique in this respect – anxiety, or even sometimes moral panic, along with a host of other social problems...
March 13, 2017
In memory of Anatoly Chernyaev (1921–2017)
The death of Anatoly Chernyaev brings to an end the life journey of a remarkable man whose thoughts and deeds were inextricably linked to a great historical era. He was born in 1921 in Moscow, and grew up in a hard and contradictory time. He...
January 30, 2017
"World free of fear". The letter from John Fox to President Gorbachev
Dear President Gorbachev, As tomorrow is the birth date of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, I want to share with you this photograph of the two of us taken in President Roosevelt’s office in his Hyde Park, New York home at the conclusion of...
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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