Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Friday accused the current Russian authorities of backsliding on democracy and rolling back the process of reform ...
The Evening Standard newspaper voiced confidence on Monday that it has a "golden future" under its new Russian owners, while vowing editorial independence ...
Gorbachev and Shultz, veterans of 1986 summit `failure,' have advice for Obama, MedvedevBack in the Cold War, an eon ago, in a little white house in Iceland, the Russian and the American parried and probed each other as antagonists. And together they ...
Compelling and Enlightening History of the Cold War The Cold War: A New History. John Lewis Gaddis. The Penguin Press. 333 pages: photographs, index; $27.95.By coincidence, I find myself writing this review on the 60th anniversary of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, ...
It's always useful to be reminded of the remarkable stoicism and bravery of the generation of people that lived through the second world war. It's hard to imagine it being repeated today. I felt it this week listening to Coming Home, a ...
I feel something of a gooseberry as Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher sit snugly side by side on a sofa in the upstairs room of The Ivy. They are sort of flirting, bonding over old times and cold climes as the magic ...
TelevisionGlimmer of hopeTo be honest, I haven't been watching an awful lot of TV lately. It gets in the way of bedtime reading and an early night. You think you're safe watching a programme at 9 p.m ...
What really goes on between world leaders at summits? Sir Christopher Meyer, former press secretary to John Major and later ambassador to Washington, told us in How to Succeed at Summits (Sundays, repeated Wednesdays), an entertaining two-part series on Radio Four. Meyer ...
Geordie Greig laments the gradual demise of the bread-and-butter letter Just sometimes I wish I had A.A. Gill's balls. Well, maybe not literally, but certainly when it comes to thank-you letters. He doesn't do them. So he has none of my bourgeois, ...
Gorbachev says Obama's election shows the world that the US wants changeSome Russians call Barack Obama the American Gorbachev because of his promises to bring change to his country. And the real Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday that change is what the U.S. ...
One hundred political, military, business and civic leaders from across the globe launched a new initiative in Paris on Tuesday aiming eliminate all nuclear weapons.The "Global Zero" declaration, endorsed by a "Who's Who" of the world's foreign policy aristocracy from the past ...
Nobel peace laureates opened a summit in Paris Thursday to draw world attention to the plight of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, but former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to miss the gathering.Gorbachev, whose foundation is co-hosting the three-day gathering with ...
