Mikhail Gorbachev
On nuclear disarmament, toughness and realism prevail | Letter
Letter: Julian Lewis MP recalls a multilateral deal that eliminated both cruise and Soviet SS-20 missiles
11, Feb, 2024 @6:30 PM
The warnings from Greenham Common’s women are as pertinent as ever | Letter
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
30, Jan, 2024 @5:50 PM
‘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
Philip Oltermann
29, Sep, 2023 @9:00 AM
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
Tim Adams
20, Aug, 2023 @4:00 AM
The Guardian view on the Arctic: threatened by Putin’s war | Editorial
Editorial: Geopolitical fallout from the conflict in Ukraine is threatening an environmentally crucial region
Editorial
11, Jun, 2023 @5:25 PM
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, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Anatol Lieven
24, Feb, 2023 @3:43 PM
Mikhail Gorbachev remembered by Pavel Palazhchenko
The former Soviet leader’s longtime translator remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and understood that he was a man of history
Pavel Palazhchenko
12, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM
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 kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin
Stuart Jeffries
13, Oct, 2022 @8:37 AM
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’
Amelia Gentleman
04, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
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
Ivan Krastev
04, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM
The Observer view on Mikhail Gorbachev: he drew a line under a wretched past 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
Observer editorial
04, Sep, 2022 @5:30 AM
‘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
Andrew Roth in Moscow
03, Sep, 2022 @4:10 PM
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