02 December 2010
Take five: it’s Dave Brubeck’s birthday

American
jazzman was invited to Moscow by Nancy Reagan to provide some
entertainment at her husband’s arms reduction summit with Mikhail
Gorbachev in 1988. Talks hadn’t been going well and Soviet and American
top brass were sitting stiffly in the embassy ballroom when Brubeck and
band
ссылка: www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/article2828796.ece

12 June 2010
Destroying monuments to Stalin a silly attempt to rewrite history: Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempts to reform the Soviet Union helped
to bring about its demise, says he regrets the destruction of monuments
to Joseph Stalin which he described as a “silly, anti-historical act”.
ссылка; http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article2552472.ece

27 September 2010
Gennady Yanayev  

Gennady Yanayev was
the man selected by KGB and army plotters to replace Mikhail Gorbachev
as Soviet president in a failed coup in August 1991. Announcing on
Soviet television that he was taking over as president, Yanayev’s hands
shook uncontrollably and he later admitted that he was…
ссылка: www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2741675.ece

28 October 2010
Gorbachev warns US that victory in Afghanistan is ‘impossible’

Mikhail Gorbachev warned Nato yesterday that victory in Afghanistan
was impossible and that the United States should withdraw its forces.
ссылка: www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/afghanistan/article2783639.ece

22 August 2010
t’s not easy to get troops out. Ask Gorbachev

In
his Cabinet room, the leader was exasperated by the latest reports of
casualties in Afghanistan. “We’re in … but how to get out racks one’s
brains,” he told his generals and political colleagues. “We’ve been
fighting in Afghanistan for years now and if we don’t change our
approach we’ll…
ссылка: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article2697492.ece

‘25 September 2010
Gang of eight’ leader who led coup against Gorbachev dies of cancer

The man who led a failed coup by hardline Communists to try to stop
Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of the Soviet Union died yesterday, aged
73. 
ссылка: www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article2740414.ece

 02 December 2010
Take five: it’s Dave Brubeck’s birthday

American
jazzman was invited to Moscow by Nancy Reagan to provide some
entertainment at her husband’s arms reduction summit with Mikhail
Gorbachev in 1988. Talks hadn’t been going well and Soviet and American
top brass were sitting stiffly in the embassy ballroom when Brubeck and
band
ссылка; http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/article2828796.ece

12 June 2010
Destroying monuments to Stalin a silly attempt to rewrite history: Gorbachev
Richard Owen

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempts to reform the
Soviet Union helped to bring about its demise, says he regrets the
destruction of monuments to Joseph Stalin which he described as a
“silly, anti-historical act”.
ссылка: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article2552472.ece

01 November 2010
Is Gorby’s birthday really worth all this fuss? You bet

…past British and French prime ministers, a German Chancellor,
film and pop stars, opera singers and even Arnie from California. They
will all be at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the 80th birthday of a
man who once headed a party committed to grey conformity — Mikhail
Gorbachev.
ссылка: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/thunderer/article2789105.ece

02 January 2010
Battle for the soul of Russia will begin in the schoolroom

…worship is supposed to begin the day, but in most places does
not. In the US religious education is banned in “public” schools (though
teaching about religion is permitted). In the Soviet Union aggressive
instruction in atheism was mandatory up to Mikhail Gorbachev’s day 20
years ago.
ссылка; http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article2100927.ece

23 January 2012
Fish and chip chain launched in Russia to help save battered industry

They succumbed eagerly to Ronald McDonald. Mikhail Gorbachev once
advertised pizza. Now Russians look set for another fast-food fad — fish
and chips.
ссылка:  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article2601669.ece

09 November 2012
Perestroika

could not survive Mikhail
Gorbachev’s reforms. Elliot suggests that my differentiation of overt
dissidents from “within- system reformers” (also known as
“intrastructural dissenters”) is artificial, and gives examples from the
perestroika era. He appears to think he is correcting me…
ссылка: www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/reviews/arts_and_commentary/article739873.ece

24 April 2012
The Atlantic and its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Few Germans I met in my time in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
owned up to serving in the West, only on the Eastern Front against the
Red Army, which in 1945 fought its way to the Elbe and beyond — bravely,
crudely, ruthlessly, mercilessly, its rape and rapine officially
sanctioned. And…
ссылка:www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/non-fiction/article2486096.ece

April 1, 2013
Gorbachev Attacks Putin and His Restrictions

MOSCOW — Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the first and last president of the
Soviet Union, now 82 and increasingly frail, may have needed a helping
ссылка:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/europe/gorbachev-attacks-putin-and-his-restrictions.html?gwh=99BC017882A3AF4012667314723583DF&gwt=regi

April 08, 2013
Thatcher and Gorbachev

A look back at
Margaret Thatcher’s mutual, and mutually advantageous, admiration
society with Mikhail Gorbachev in the final years of the Cold
ссылка:http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/maggie-and-gorby/