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On nuclear disarmament, toughness and realism prevail | Letter
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
The warnings from Greenham Common’s women are as pertinent as ever | Letter
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...
‘Everything became a lie, a performance’ – Werner Herzog on Soviet Russia
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 ...
Paying the price of truth: Nobel peace laureate Dmitry Muratov won’t be silenced by Putin
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...
The Guardian view on the Arctic: threatened by Putin’s war | Editorial
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...
For years, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022? | Anatol Lieven
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
Mikhail Gorbachev remembered by Pavel Palazhchenko
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...
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis
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...
Mikhail Gorbachev’s commitment to the environment was ahead of its time
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...
Gorbachev freed my generation of eastern Europeans from the abyss. We saw a different future | Ivan Krastev
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 “...
The Observer view on Mikhail Gorbachev: he drew a line unde... but failed to usher in a brighter future | Observer editorial
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...
‘His was the slow way to freedom’: Russia says farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev
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...
Mikhail Gorbachev funeral held in Moscow as Putin too busy to attend
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...
Once the world had Gorbachev and Mandela. Now we have Trump, Johnson and Truss | Jonathan Freedland
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...
Putin to snub Gorbachev funeral due to work schedule
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
The Guardian view on Gorbachev’s legacy: the hope endures | Editorial
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...
Gorbachev was let down by the west. Putin’s Russia is the result | Letters
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...
Kremlin fails to say whether Gorbachev will get state funeral
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
Kremlin says Gorbachev’s romanticism about the west was not justified – video
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...
A peaceful yet radical social transformer: Mikhail Gorbachev leaves a blazing legacy | Archie Brown
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...