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Mikhail Gorbachev

Type: Person

Name: Mikhail Gorbachev

Title: Former President of the Soviet Union

Date of Birth: 02/03/1931

Place of Birth: Privolnoye near Stavropol

Fact Sheet: Biography for Mikhail Gorbachev

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Gorbachev criticizes Kremlin, hints at comeback

MOSCOW - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback.Gorbachev said that corruption and overdependence on oil exports have aggravated the impact of the ... [CTV.ca - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Mikhail Gorbachev, Union of Social Democrats, Social Democratic Party of Russia

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Gorbachev Receives MTV Award

BERLIN (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) -- Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the fall of the Soviet Union, has been awarded the 2009 Europe Music Awards (EMA) Free Your Mind Award.The award was presented by MTV Networks International CEO/Chairman Bill Roedy ... [Encore - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Mikhail Gorbachev, Cinema For Peace, Anton Abele, Football Against Racism in Europe

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents

Robert Gates

Did Gates Blow the Call on the Soviets?: A Dissent

Did Gates Blow The Call On The Soviets?: A Dissent The New Republic Scheiber: Why Moving Terrorist Prisoners to Illinois Is Good Another âGoing Rogueâ Curiosity: Sarah Palin Believes the Is Determined to Shame Meat-Eaters Senior Editor November ... [The New Republic Online - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Robert Gates, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union, Sarah Palin

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 4 Documents

Commentary: Afghan Exit -- By Gorby

Did Mikhail Gorbachev launch glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s with the aim of bringing about genuine democratic change in the Soviet Union? That's what he says in two interviews on both sides of the Atlantic -- Euronews' Maria Pineiro and Nation ... [OfficialWire - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Cold War, Warsaw Pact, Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Berlin

First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 7 Documents

Czechs celebrate 20 years since Velvet Revolution

Former Czech president Vaclav Havel opened the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution with a concert attended by celebrities.Underground rocker Lou Reed, soprano Renee Fleming and folk singer Joan Baez performed to a crowd of about 500 ... [Ireland On-Line - 11/15/2009]

Entities: Renée Fleming, Prague, Vaclav Havel

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 3 Documents

Berlin Wall - Johnson's Part in Its Downfall [opinion]

Johannesburg IT's a little-known fact, by which I mean it's a fact I didn't know until Sunday, that the Berlin Wall came down because of two questions at a press conference. An elevated understanding of the consequences of these two questions suggests ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Daniel Johnson, Berlin, Günter Schabowski, Egon Krenz

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents

Soviet lessons from Afghanistan

Andrew North BBC News The problems faced by Soviet forces in Afghanistan carry echoes for Nato All the most senior ministers were at the Afghan strategy meeting.They knew things were not going well, but from their leader there was a whiff of panic. 'We ... [BBC - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Kabul, Politburo

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 2 Documents

Our opinion: Great Firewall of China

Great Firewall of China When Ronald Reagan visited West Germany in 1987, he issued a challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Twenty years ago this month, the Berlin Wall dividing East and West came... ... [USA Today - 11/16/2009]

Entities: China, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Berlin

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 2 Documents

Czechs celebrate 20 years since Velvet Revolution

Entities: Vaclav Havel, Renée Fleming, 20th century

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Nobel Laureates call on world leaders for robust climate change deal

The call comes in a Memorandum signed by Laureates from across the disciplines, including recent recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, Mikhail Gorbachev, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, ... [Cambridge Network - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Nobel Laureates, Global Warming/Climate Change, Nobel Prize, Harold Kroto

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Obama, Medvedev Declare Arms Treaty Talks a Success

SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama said Sunday that the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year’s end.Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev met on the sidelines of a summit of the Asia-Pacific ... [St. Petersburg Times Russia - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Dmitry Medvedev, Iran, Barack Obama

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Gorbachev and the Most Complete Test in Economic History

Only a moron would allow economists to make decisions for him. So, this week, we give thanks to morons. We're referring to the dumbbells who took part in the largest and longest and most complete test in economic history. Two generations and 20 million ... [The Daily Reckoning Australia - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Mikhail Gorbachev, Czech Republic, Germany, Bill Bonner

Quotes

In an interview in Moscow with Television News, Gorbachev said it was a catalyst for peace. "no matter how hard it was, we worked, we found mutual understanding and we moved forward. we started cutting down nuclear weapons, scaling down the armed forces in europe and resolving other issues" he said.It all began with a routine late afternoon .On Nov...

Germany celebrates Berlin Wall memories [Good News Daily - 11/11/2009]

...with his decision to hold competitive elections and to tell leaders of the Soviet client states they should take charge of their own territories. "it was the creation of a new state" Gorbachev told 'State of the Union' from Berlin, Germany...

A defining 20th century moment [CNN - 11/10/2009]

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A Three-Step Afghan Strategy [Consortium News - 11/19/2009]
Careers in climate change [New Scientist - 11/19/2009]
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Did Gates Blow the Call on the Soviets?: A Dissent [The New Republic Online - 11/18/2009]
Human Capital [The National Interest - 11/18/2009]
Kazan and Fatima [Catholic Exchange - 11/18/2009]
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‘Ludicrous Propaganda’ Driving Afghanistan Debate [Public Record - 11/18/2009]
Unbalanced [The National Interest - 11/18/2009]
Czechs take to the streets to celebrate 20 year... [Mail Online UK - 11/17/2009]

Blogs

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United States at Recession or Inflation Crossroads [The Market Oracle - 11/19/2009] AM By: John_Browne The U.S. economy is in uncertain times. Analysts are split between those seeing recovery and those fearing a second downturn. This confusion is ...
Did Gates Blow the Call on the Soviets?: A Dissent [The New Republic - The Plank Feed - 11/18/2009] As I argue in my recent print story on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the prevailing view in Washington foreign policy circles is that Gates, as an anti-Soviet ...
On Bended Knee to Bob Gates [NO QUARTER - 11/16/2009] Reprinted from Consortium.com with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose bio is at the end of this article. Consortium Editor’s Note: It’s been said that ...
Our opinion: Great Firewall of China [USATODAY.com - Opinion - 11/16/2009] Great Firewall of China When Ronald Reagan visited West Germany in 1987, he issued a challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this ...
'They have no idea what a nuclear bomb is.' - A... [Daily Kos - 11/15/2009] Several weeks ago, the Albuquerque Journal published a very short but very important article. It was buried in the usual pile of stories about local crime, sports, ...

Audio/Video

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Berlin Wall: Mikhail Gorbachev [CNN.com - Video - 11/20/2009]
Clinton prefers Medvedev over Putin and Gorbachev [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/10/2009]
After the Wall Tumbled [Slate Magazine - 11/09/2009]
Gorbachev: Ruins of Wall saw last nail in Cold ... [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/09/2009]
The Lessons of 1989 [Slate Magazine - 11/09/2009]

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