JULIAN LEWIS MP recalls a multilateral deal that eliminated both cruise and Soviet SS-20 missiles In his memoirs published in 1996, Mikhail Gorbachev denounced the deployment of Soviet SS-20 mi...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/11/on-nuclear-disarmament-toughness-and-realism-prevail
Mikhail Gorbachev paid tribute to the role we played in bringing him and Ronald Reagan together, writes DR REBECCA E JOHNSON, but we are still on the brink of nuclear war I’m the young Greenh...
The German director is championing Georgian film-maker Rezo Gigineishvili’s movie about the dying days of the USSR. But, he says, he won’t be drawn into contemporary political debates What ...
The Russian newspaper editor speaks from Moscow in an exclusive interview as a new film biography charts his defiance of the Kremlin during the war in Ukraine A few days after he announced he w...
Geopolitical fallout from the conflict in Ukraine is threatening an environmentally crucial region As the cold war thawed in the 1980s, the frozen high north of the planet was a leading benefic...
This war is Russia’s fault. But European nations rebuffing Russia during the noughties did not help Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine and try to capture Kyiv in February 2022, and not yea...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/24/vladimir-putin-invade-ukraine-2022-russia
2 MARCH 1931 - 30 AUGUST 2022 The former Soviet leader’s longtime interpreter remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and knew that he was a man of histo...
Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocr...
After stepping down as Soviet leader he devoted himself to ‘the most urgent task facing humanity today’ When Mikhail Gorbachev introduced reforms permitting greater freedom of speech in the...
The man who liberalised the Soviet Union died last week, beset by a sense that his country had been betrayed – by the west and history The German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger labelled him “...
Hailed a hero by the west for banishing Stalin’s legacy and ending the cold war, he was ultimately reviled at home Instant history, like instant coffee, is rarely as good as the real thing. Ye...
Putin has snubbed him, but thousands have come to see the last Soviet leader lying in state in Moscow The Pillar Hall in the House of the Unions is a grand old ballroom where Soviet leaders are...
Hundreds of mourners pay tribute in Russian capital to former Soviet leader credited with helping to end cold war Russians paid their final respects to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikh...
The Soviet leader’s death is a reminder that the ‘great man theory’ of history is truer than we might like to think It’s a deeply unfashionable idea. The “great man theory” of histo...
Russian president lays wreath at hospital where Soviet leader died but will not attend service, Kremlin says Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/putin-will-not-attend-gorbachev-funeral-kremlin-says
Russia’s post-Soviet experiment in democracy failed, but the dream of its political freedom must be preserved The Kremlin has been unsure how to mark the death this week of Mikhail Gorbachev...
With better support from the US and Britain, Russia could have been a very different place today, says MICHAEL MEADOWCROFT, while BILL ROBINSON remembers photographing the Thatchers and the Gorba...
Putin acknowledges last Soviet leader’s ‘huge impact’ while grappling with his legacy of reform Vladimir Putin has sent official condolences to the family of Mikhail Gorbachev as the Krem...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/31/putin-gorbachev-death-tribute-impact-global-history
The Kremlin has hailed the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a statesman who will go down in history but said his ‘romanticism’ about prospects for a reconciliation with the west ha...
No western leader could have predicted his progressive reforms. But war between his country and Ukraine was a devastating blow Mikhail Gorbachev was the most significant political leader global...