August
August 27, 2018
38 minutes waiting for a nuclear strike. How Hawaii survived a false alarm about a nuclear attack in January 2018
Cynthia Lazaroff is a documentary filmmaker who has spent the past year interviewing officials and experts in the United States and Russia on nuclear dangers. She has founded groundbreaking US-Russian exchange initiatives since the early...
August 17, 2018
Rand Paul: “The US needs to engage with Russia”
Real dialogue is necessary for nuclear-arms reduction. On my recent trip to Russia, I spent an hour with Mikhail Gorbachev. I told him that in the West we are grateful that he and President Ronald Reagan defied Cold War orthodoxy to...
August 6, 2018
Naydene de Lange, Prof., Nelson Mandela University, S.Africa. "Girls as 'warriors': Addressing gender inequality in turbulent times in South Africa"
Report presented at the International Conference “Girlhood in Turbulent Times: Gender Equality as a Cultural Norm and a Social Practice”, 7 April 2017 South Africa, in its 23rd year of its democracy, is indeed experiencing...
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...
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