J. Statement by Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

He praised Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev as a representative of peace, citing his presence as an honour for all participants.

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.

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?

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.

Twenty years ago this month, Mikhail Gorbachev began his policies ofperestroika and glasnost, which led to the end of the Cold War. Now, however, a new chill has entered relations between Russia and the West.

Mikhail Kourinny

Mikhail Kotsyubinsky

Twenty years ago this month, Mikhail Gorbachev began his policies of perestroika and glasnost , which led to the end of the Cold War. Now, however, a new chill has entered relations between Russia and the West.

In May, Hungarian reformers began tearing down the fence along their border with Austria a hole in the Iron Curtain. In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke of a Common European House and repudiated the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine.

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.

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.

Gradually, the balance of advantage swung away from the Communist leadership especially after Mikhail Gorbachev took over as Soviet leader and back toward Solidarity. Exhausted, the Polish Communist regime agreed to sit down to talks with Solidarity.

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.

Concerning Mr. Mikhail Marynich.

Mikhail Makarovich, I'm off!

Be seated, Mikhail Ivanovich.

Indeed, some Party bosses wanted to bring out the tanks, just like their comrades in Beijing. But when Mikhail Gorbachev refused to support a German crackdown, a mixture of overwhelming public protest and government bungling brought down the Berlin Wall.

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.

NEW YORK Twenty four years ago this month, Soviet hardliners, desperate to stop the country s nascent democratic transition, arrested Mikhail Gorbachev and declared martial law. In response, millions of protesters poured into the streets of Moscow and towns across the Soviet Union.

Production Designers Mikhail BOGDANOV, Gennady MIASNIKOV

Give this letter to Mikhail Illarionovich.

Why don't you begin, Mikhail Illarionovich?

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.

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.

Screenplay by VLADIMIR BOGOMOLOV and MIKHAIL PAPAVA

Mr. Mikhail Khvostov, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs

Mr. Mikhail Shimansky, Editor in chief, Narodnaya Gazeta

A mere statement by the US that it has no intention to press this military advantage will not assuage China s fears. Chinese leaders recall that the US promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that German reunification and democratic transition in Eastern Europe would not mean eastward expansion of NATO.

Instead, a populist nationalist revolution might resemble the attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, or a Russian version of Ukraine s Orange Revolution. It might be some sort of democratic nationalist revolution spontaneous, and not made by any one political party but by a popular mass movement.

Mikhail Illarionovich, what do you think of tomorrow's battle?

Was it preferable to start with economics try and get rich, quick, but don t rock the boat politically in the manner of the Chinese? Or was it better to start with politics recover liberty and prosperity may follow which seemed to be Russia s path under Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin?

Such a basis is not hard to find. Its inspiration can be the Earth Charter, which, launched in 2000, was initiated by, among others, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Wangari Mathaai, who received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in the Green Belt Movement, a pan African tree planting initiative.

China, which has 77 nuclear reactors at various stages of construction, planning, and discussion, has said that it will review its program. Though Russia has formally announced that it will go ahead with its program, former President Mikhail Gorbachev on whose watch the Chernobyl meltdown occurred 25 years ago is not so sanguine.

It was only after Mikhail Gorbachev summoned Yeltsin to Moscow in 1985 that he began to differentiate himself from dozens of other senior party apparatchiks. Sensing the bitter frustration of Moscow s middle class in waiting, Yeltsin quickly gained a reputation as a harsh, if not always coherent, critic of the party s old guard.

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

Mr. Mikhail Kozlovsky, Acting Chairman of the Executive Board, Children of Chernobyl

After the Congress, it became clear that the communist gospel was false and murderously corrupt. But no other ideology was offered, and the crisis the slow rot of the system that became clear during the era of stagnation under Leonid Brezhnev that began with Khrushchev s speech lasted another 30 years, until Mikhail Gorbachev took up his mantle of change.

So, if Putin is concerned about Russia, he should abandon his czarist notions of power and leave high office, if not politics altogether. Like other democratic leaders, he might consider working in the private sector, like Gerhard Schröder, or, better yet, write books and help Tsunami victims, like Bill Clinton or become an environmentalist, like Mikhail Gorbachev.

We're not at a parade, Mikhail Illarionovich, where they don't begin until everyone's there.

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.

One of the late Pope John Paul II s unfulfilled dreams was to visit Moscow and forge a rapprochement with the Orthodox Church. But, although he was invited to Moscow by Russia s three most recent presidents Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, and Mikhail Gorbachev opposition to the visit by Orthodox Patriarch Alexi prevented the Pope from making the journey before he died.

And recall that it was indifference to the non reforming East European communist regimes on the part of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union that ultimately sealed their fate and delivered Havel from a prison cell to Prague Castle. Havel, of course, was a beneficiary of such indifference, but he never practiced it, remaining a fighter for truth and freedom throughout his life.

Mikhail Yurochko and Yevgeny Mednikov were reportedly found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

Save and protect my son Ivan, and save the souls of my children Mikhail, Danila,