2020
December 13, 2020
Mikhail Gorbachev congratulated former secretary of state George Shultz in his 100th birthday.
Dear George, Congratulations on your extraordinary Jubilee! It is an amazing date! Your life has been a long road, and I might say, part of this road we travelled together. Today, I look back on those years. They were not easy but they were very...
November 21, 2020
Perestroika History. 35 Years Ago Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan Met in Geneva, November 19 – 21, 1985
The leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States met after a six-year pause in summit-level contacts between the Soviet Union and the United States. After three days of discussions, they adopted a Joint Statement which became an important...
September 29, 2020
Reach out to Vladimir Putin or risk a new arms race, Mikhail Gorbachev warns next US leader
Mikhail Gorbachev has urged the winner of the US election to hold an early meeting with Vladimir Putin amid fears that the nuclear arms race the then Soviet president helped to end three decades ago is again spiralling out of control. "The...
August 10, 2020
Commemorative Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 75th Anniversary with President Gorbachev and Secretary Shultz.
August 6, 2020
Mikhail Gorbachev’s Address to Members of International Interfaith Organizations
Dear friends, I was glad to learn from my friend George Shultz that on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing your organizations are planning a joint statement on the need to abolish nuclear weapons. The text that I reviewed...
July 15, 2020
Congratulations from Mikhail Gorbachev to the Dalai Lama on his 85th birthday and Thank you note to Mikhail Gorbachev from the Dalai Lama
His Holiness Dalai Lama XIV Your Holiness, It gives me special pleasure to wish you a Happy 85th Birthday! It is with warmth that I remember our meetings and collaboration at the Nobel Peace Prize Forums. Your strong belief in a world free of...
June 22, 2020
The Gorbachev Foundation: The Pandemic as a Challenge and the New Thinking in the 21st Century
The paper has been prepared as part of the Expertise Round Table, a standing project of The Gorbachev Foundation. The team of contributors led by Mikhail Gorbachev includes Pavel Palazhchenko, Vasily Zharkov, Olga Zdravomyslova, Karen Karageziyan...
May 18, 2020
Mikhail Gorbachev’s tribute to John Paul II
Mikhail Gorbachev contributed an article to the special edition of the newspaper Osservatore Romano, published by the Holy See. The article, titled He Remains Our Contemporary, was also carried by Italy’s leading newspaper La Repubblica. In...
April 16, 2020
Mikhail Gorbachev: When The Pandemic Is Over, The World Must Come Together
During the first months of this year, we have seen once again how fragile is our global world, how great the danger of sliding into chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic is facing all countries with a common threat, and no country can cope with it alone. The...
April 2, 2020
Mikhail Gorbachev Replies to Questions of the Interfax News Agency
Q: How did you take the news of the pandemia? A: I think I took it the way most people did. Initially, there was hope that it could be controlled, localized. But things took a very different turn and the epidemic spread far and wide. Unprecedented...
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