I remember once, I sat beside Mrs. Gorbachev at a White House dinner.

And I knew Mr. Dobrynin very well, and I said, I'm going to sit beside Mrs. Gorbachev tonight.

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How has this come to pass? Why have the hopes of Gorbachev s glasnost been so cruelly snuffed out?

Mr. Gorbachev observed that this was the third occasion on which he had participated in the activities of the Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona.

She said that the contribution of President Gorbachev in promoting a culture of democracy and individual freedom was familiar to all.

And afterward, she said, You know, I'm an atheist, but I know that there's something up there higher than we are.

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And I think that's something that we have to be in the room, whether it's Nixon going to China or Khrushchev and Kennedy or Reagan and Gorbachev.

In the 1980 s, Mikhail Gorbachev warned that Soviet oil resources were exhausted. Of course, due to the Western engineering and management that became available after Gorbachev launched his perestroika reforms, the country was soon producing more oil than ever indeed, more than was ever believed possible and oil men like Mikhail Khodorkovsky arose out of the blue.

Mikhail Gorbachev continued to uncover the crimes of Stalinism, shedding light on dark pages that Khrushchev lacked the courage to open to public view. During Boris Yeltsin s presidency, this criticism became even stronger.

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Twenty years after Mikhail Gorbachev launched perestroika, many people have come to lament the slow pace of reform in Russia under President Vladimir Putin. But could it have been otherwise?

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Among the distinguished participants were the former President of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, Martti Ahtisaari of Finland and Jeffrey Sachs, the Special Adviser of the United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals.

(d) The formalizing of existing informal bilateral arrangements regarding non strategic nuclear reductions, such as the Bush Gorbachev declarations of 1991, into legally binding agreements

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The huge loss of life in Afghanistan (equal to the United States losses in Vietnam, but in a far shorter period of time) already suggested to many that the Kremlin was becoming a danger to itself the attack on a civilian airliner seemed to confirm that emerging view. It was this realization that spurred Mikhail Gorbachev s rise to power, as well as support among the leadership for Gorbachev s reformist policies of perestroika and glasnost.

We now call Al the George Clooney of global warming.

The first actor was Mikhail Gorbachev, who approved the act the opening of the border between Austria and Hungary that triggered the chain of events leading to reunification. And it was Gorbachev who proclaimed that Soviet forces would not intervene to support troubled communist regimes against the will of their people a declaration aimed directly at East Germany.

She also said that the World Urban Forum was greatly honoured by the presence of two truly distinguished world leaders and former presidents Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union and Mr. Martti Ahtisaari of Finland.

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Distinguished participants included former presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Martti Ahtisaari, Jeffrey Sachs and the late Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, who was presented with a special citation of the Habitat Scroll of Honour for his visionary role in the reconstruction of post conflict Lebanon.

(e) Under article 35 of the Constitution, everyone has a right to work and to have social protection against unemployment.

MOSCOW Throughout his years in power, Eduard Shevardnadze was known as the silver fox, a man who seemed to glide effortlessly from leader of Soviet Georgia and Kremlin Politburo member to Mikhail Gorbachev s reform minded foreign minister, before reemerging as post Soviet Georgia s pro Western president, ironically opposing Gorbachev. He regarded himself as a hero who liberated Georgia from Russia s tight embrace.

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They stated that they take part only in local, not in NK, elections and that they have NK identification cards.

I was explaining to her ladyship about poor Alfred's bad leg. Bad leg?

It was December 31, 1989, and I was in the Soviet Union. I had found myself in a restaurant in the old city of Suzdal, listening to President Mikhail Gorbachev s New Year wishes.

MADRID Even Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union with scarcely a shot fired, has proclaimed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin s annexation of Crimea. The people of Crimea, he says, have corrected a historic Soviet error.

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Telephone, Mr. Amiel. Transatlantic, Paris. Jonathan Shields.

The last prisoners were released in 1987, three years into Mikhail Gorbachev s rule. Now it was being restored as a Gulag Museum by Memorial, a human rights group founded by the dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, to remind Russians of their totalitarian past.

Some 50,000 Soviets writers, journalists, officials, musicians, dancers, athletes, and academics visited the United States between 1958 and 1988. Aleksandr Yakovlev was strongly influenced by his studies at Columbia University in 1958.

We're ready to talk with Jonathan Shields in Paris.

Her relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the way to ending the Cold War her privatization policies showed the world how to dismantle state socialism. The neo liberal revival of the 1980 s will always be known as the Reagan Thatcher revolution.