Mikhail Gorbachev

Chernobyl Zombies? Chernobyl HIV? Chernobyl Forever?

Glen Browder | Posted 05.26.2012

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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 04.24.2012

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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 04.17.2012

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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

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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

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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

Read More: 'Glasnost and Perestroika?, Eduard-Shevardnadze, Lubyanka, Soviet Collapse, Mikhail Gorbachev, World News

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

Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia Elections 2012, Vaclav Havel, Putin Election, Russia-Protests-Putin, Russian Elections, Russia-Democracy, Russia Protests, Protests Russia, Putin Protests, World News

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Covering the Coup: Looking Back 20 Years

Beth Knobel | Posted 10.21.2011

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It takes more than 20 years to establish a truly healthy democracy, especially in countries like Russia. But many who put their lives on the line hoped that this far out from their struggle, more of the post-Soviet promise would be fulfilled.

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Gorbachev: Don't Reelect Putin

AP | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 10.17.2011

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MOSCOW -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the government on Wednesday for taking Russia backward and said that the nation needs free...

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Remembering Ray Anderson: A Tribute to a True Green Giant

Matt Petersen | Posted 10.09.2011

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Ray set his sights high -- aiming to run a zero-footprint business, if not a restorative enterprise -- and set the best possible example for other businesses, big and small, to follow his lead. That is his legacy: hope for the future.

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Presidential Rebuttals Throughout History

Albert Brooks | Posted 09.25.2011

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Isn't the whole point of winning the office of president that you can talk to the nation without others belittling what you say? I began to think of some great presidential moments and what their rebuttals might have sounded like, had they been allowed at the time.

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Crazy Like a GOP Fox: Eric Cantor and the Current Crisis

Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.11.2011

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President Obama needs to get Eric Cantor out on a golf course -- and bury him up to his chin in a sand trap. When Eric Cantor stands shoulder-to-sh...

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For Obama, Being Lucky May Be More Important Than Being Good

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.19.2011

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The Republicans may have a big problem on their hands as Donald Trump explores a presidential bid. With his increasingly bizarre statements, he seems more like the business world's answer to Charlie Sheen than a potential president.

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

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When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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No-Drama Obama Is Also No-Doctrine Obama

John Feffer | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Libya, Obama Doctrine, Mikhail Gorbachev, Barack Obama, Humanitarian Intervention, War in Afghanistan, Libya Intervention, Hillary Clinton, War in Iraq, Foreign Policy, Bashar Assad, World News

When it comes to Barack Obama, political zoologists remain undecided whether he is a new kind of political animal and if his foreign policy represents a unique departure from the same old, same old.

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Sharon Stone, Kevin Spacey And Birthmarks: Inside The 'Gorby Gala'

Posted 05.31.2011

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LONDON (Reuters) - Movie stars, singers and politicians turned out on Wednesday at a gala concert in London to honor former Soviet President Mikha...

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Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Apocalypse Now in Japan? NPR Funding? The Donald and The Hillary?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sitting in for Arianna, Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation disagrees with Mary about nuclear power, funding NPR and "Curveball" lying us into Iraq.

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A Great Man's Birthday

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cold War, Gorbachev Birthday, Ronald Reagan, Jack Matlock, Ambassador Matlock, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union, Politics News

Few figures in the second half of the 20th century have been as pivotal as Mikhail Gorbachev was. He took unprecedented steps within the Soviet structure and toward the U.S. that made the end of the Cold War possible.

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