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Mikhail Gorbachev

'All That Has Been Done Is Too Late'

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 04.18.2013 | Green
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GENEVA (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday painted a dim picture of the world's environmental progress, two decades after he f...

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David Stockman and Jeffrey Sachs: Smart Men From Whose Failures We Have Much to Learn

David Paul | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics
Read More: Reagonomics, Roman Abramovich, Jeffrey Sachs, Boris Yeltsin, David Stockman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Berezovsky, Politics News
David Paul

The deep pain and tragedy of unintended consequences are experiences that Stockman and Sachs share, and that they each carry with them to this day. We need them to write about that, because that is where they have the greatest insight to offer, and the side of their stories that people most need to understand.

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Gorbachev: Russia Must Move To 'Real Democracy'

Reuters | Posted 03.30.2013 | World
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MOSCOW, March 30 (Reuters) - The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Saturday Russia will face unrest unless society is made more democrati...

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Is China Taking the Right Cues From History?

Devin Stewart | Posted 03.19.2013 | World
Read More: Corruption, Xi Jinping, Democracy, Singapore, South Korea, Mikhail Gorbachev, China, President Xi Jinping, Obama Xi Jinping, World News
Devin Stewart

Signs suggest Chinese President Xi's inclination will be to double down on Communist orthodoxy. In other words, Xi won't be a Mikhail Gorbachev. He's no reformer.

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Exit Hu, Enter Xi: Changing of the Guard

Aiko Stevenson | Posted 05.15.2013 | World
Read More: Xi Jinping, Bo Xilai, Mikhail Gorbachev, Climate Change, China, World Bank, China Pollution, World News
Aiko Stevenson

Last year, the World Bank laid out a blueprint for reform which included privatizing large areas of the state and the greening of the economy. But, such changes will require taking on entrenched state interests. And, this will represent the heart of Xi's main challenge.

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Outed CIA Spy's Latest Battle

The Huffington Post | Lance Gould | Posted 03.06.2013 | Impact
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Valerie Plame Wilson was an undercover operative in the CIA's counter-proliferation division. That line of work is also known as "spying," and in that...

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Recently Released Letters Between Reagan and Gorbachev Shed Light on the End of the Cold War

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 04.29.2013 | World
Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Cold War, Ronald Reagan, American History, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War History, Reagan Gorbachev Letters, Soviet Union, World News
Jason Saltoun-Ebin

Nuclear weapons provided cover for the Soviet Union to abandon the Cold War without surrendering. At the same time, Reagan likely did not realize that the United States could win the Cold War without a Soviet surrender.

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Guess Who's Playing Reagan Now

Posted 08.29.2012 | Entertainment
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Ronald Reagan, the late 40th president and current-day GOP hero, will be the focus of "Reykjavik," an upcoming film from British director Mike Newell....

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Famous Handshakes That Signaled Peace

AP | Posted 06.25.2012 | World
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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II and former Provisional Irish Republican Army leader Martin McGuinness are expected to shake hands in a delicately choreo...

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Mitt Romney and the Marketplace of Ideas

Heath Brown | Posted 08.03.2012 | Politics
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Heath Brown

The future vitality of the U.S. democratic system of government and quality of our public policies should be based on broadening the array of ideas presidential candidates from both parties and the public can evaluate, debate, and ultimately base their political decisions.

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NATO Looks Backward, Nobel Peace Laureates Look Forward to Youth

Jonathan Granoff | Posted 07.31.2012 | Politics
Read More: Shrin Ebadi, Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa, Nato, Jimmy Carter, Frederik Willem De Klerk, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Non-Violence, Peace, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Sean Penn, Mohammed Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics News
Jonathan Granoff

One can only imagine how much more successful the NATO gathering would have been had its members attended April's summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

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Chernobyl Zombies? Chernobyl HIV? Chernobyl Forever?

Glen Browder | Posted 07.26.2012 | World
Read More: Mental Health, University of Southern California, Chernobyl HIV, Children of Chernobyl, Nuclear, Grandchildren of Chernobyl, Maria Vitagliano, Sonny Patel, Thyroid Cancer, Chernobyl Diaries, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Green Cross International, Russia, Ukraine, Chernobyl, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jonathan M. Samet, World News
Glen Browder

Get ready, world! Chernobyl is back, almost 10,000 days later, in vivid color, with gore, blood, and ... zombies!

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Nobel Laureates Gather In Chicago For Summit

AP | TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 06.23.2012 | Chicago
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CHICAGO — Poverty, a lack of education and arms proliferation present daunting obstacles, yet peace can be achieved if world leaders are more wi...

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Fukushima's Nuclear Nightmare Is Far From Over (or the Disturbingly Deadly Act of Placing Profits Before People)

Vivian Norris | Posted 06.17.2012 | Business
Read More: Nuclear Waste, Sarkozy, Fukushima, Cesium, Mitsuhei Marata, Mox, Hydrogen, Earthquake, Daichi, Fuel Pool, Fire, Radiation, Explosion, Npr, Mikhail Gorbachev, Solar Energy, Tsunami, Reactor, Fission, Plutonium, Reactor 4, Uranium, Areva, Strontium, Cancer, Japan, Arnie Gunderson, Chernobyl Gorbachevnuclear Energy, Soviet Union, Business News
Vivian Norris

Why does Fukushima still matter? Because no matter what TEPCO or the authorities have claimed, the reactors and the fuel pools are unstable.

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Gorbachev: Putin Has 'Exhausted' His Potential

AP | By NATALIYA VASILYEVA | Posted 04.10.2012 | World
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MOSCOW -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has "exhausted" his potential as Russia's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev declared Thursday, saying Putin's inabilit...

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Gorbachev: Putin Has 'Exhausted' His Potential As Leader

AP | NATALIYA VASILYEVA | Posted 04.10.2012 | World
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MOSCOW (AP) — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has "exhausted" his potential as Russia's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev declared Thursday, saying Putin's in...

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Thank You, Mikhail Gorbachev, For Not Starting WWIII

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.26.2012 | World
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Eric Margolis

The Soviet Union's disintegration could easily have ignited World War III with the US and NATO. That it did not was due to two remarkable men: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his chief ally, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

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Gorbachev and the Struggle for Democracy

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 02.25.2012 | World
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Jeffrey Sachs

Whether the protesters recognize it or not, their coming achievements will build on the decisive contributions of Russia's greatest living statesmen, Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Gorbachev Urges Putin To Step Down

Posted 12.24.2011 | World
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By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and JIM HEINTZ -- The Associated Press MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who resigned as Soviet president 20 years ago Sunday, ha...

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Gorbachev Calls For New Vote In Russia

AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 02.06.2012 | World
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MOSCOW — Popular anger against Vladimir Putin's ruling party and alleged election fraud boiled over into a third straight night of protests Wedn...

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The Bottom Line Case for Zeroing Out Nuclear Weapons

Michael Rose | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics
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Michael Rose

Substantial cuts can be made without endangering our safety and that this would increase the moral authority of the United States while diminishing the threat of proliferation.

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25 Years After Reykjavik: What We Now Know

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 12.18.2011 | Politics
Read More: Strategic-Defense-Initiative, Ronald Reagan, Nuclear Arms Control, Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan Nuclear Proliferation, Reagan Arms Control, Politics News
Jason Saltoun-Ebin

Fearing that arms control negotiations would continue to no avail, Gorbachev made an informal proposal in September 1986 for a quick two-day meeting in Reykjavik.

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Another Old Friend and a Great Afghan Murdered

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2011 | World
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Eric Margolis

A suicide bomber killed my old friend, Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan, last week in Kabul, shaking his war-scarred nation to its core.

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Guess Who UW Students Are Having Dinner With

AP | Posted 11.21.2011 | College
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LARAMIE, Wyo. — University of Wyoming students will have an opportunity to dine with former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev (mih-kah-EE...

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Conor O'Clery's Moscow, December 25, 1991 Captures End of Soviet Union

Steve Kettmann | Posted 11.13.2011 | Books
Read More: Boris Yeltsin, Politics, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Kremlin, Cold War, 1991, Berlin Wall, Moscow, December 25, 1991 Book, 1991 Book Review, Books News
Steve Kettmann

The dissolution of the Soviet empire -- and the resulting end of the Cold War -- is the single most decisive development of recent decades and yet we remain ignorant of what happened -- and why.

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