relatives and friends are coming from the political scene from other countries, as reported by the gorbachev foundation bury him in navodchivic cemetery next to his beloved wife. i am a democratic person in form, but radicalism tormented me. i had to restrain myself, especially when i assumed such a post. can you imagine what it means to be a general secretary with such power as a radical one, as they say, to break it. the gorbachevs elected so many firewood as general secretary when he was 54 among the rest of the politburo. he was, one might say, a youth, radically distinguished by an open, paperless speaker, always ready to communicate with people on the streets. he traveled around the country and even the recognizable south russian dialect added to his nationality, but at the same time he was well educated and gathered professionals around him. including in the soviet economy, it was necessary to urgently change what we mean by acceleration. first of all, the increase in the rate of economic growth, the acceleration of self-financing , the first cooperatives at that time, the forges of the first so

the gorbachev foundation reported that they would bury him on novodevichy cemetery next to his wife,nd the date will be announced a little later. on other topics, the iaea mission has already left kiev and is heading towards the zaporozhye npp, reuters reports, according to local authorities, and the visit of international experts will last two days, and after that several specialists from the delegations should remain on the territory of the nuclear power plant, despite the arrival of the mission. ukrainian troops continue to carry out strikes on energy donations per day , more than 60 shelling attacks and nuclear power plants nearby. with her the russian military today shot down a drone , its fragments fell nearby. from the entrance to the station , local residents hope that the situation will change with the visit of many experts, otherwise it can be very scary later on. and if tomorrow they blow, east west wind, what is 60 km, it will be worse than chernobyl, it will be in general, it is terrible and does not fit. in a sound head, the whole world will suffer. do you think that th

today she is working on some charitable programs within the gorbachev foundation because today the situation in russia is difficult and people from other countries try to help and we appreciate this. of course, what russia needs most is not so much charity but cooperation based on ground rules, based on real partnership. but there are some people in russia who have been hard hit by the current situation the recent situation. and the humanitarian charitable assistance that we receive is only to be welcomed. i really believe that this is something that the american people can do very well. and i appreciate it this very much. i like this very much. i think that without this without this feature of the american character, which i think is very spiritual, without this a nation cannot really work. and in america, this works very much. and the fact that people here came from different places, different continents and they understood that they should, of course, take the initiative that they also should help each other. and that, i think, created this morality of mutual help initiative on the one ha

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, the gorbachev foundation, called for an end to the war, and at the end of july, a close friend of gorbachevt when he learned that putin had started a war in ukraine and believed that he had destroyed his cause life saw some of that changed it turned out to be fragile the arms race and geopolitical tensions are back but gorbachev will be remembered as a person who at least tried to change the rivalry between east and west bbc correspondents siv rosenberg invited to play the piano after an interview in 2019 gorbachev then sang his favorite songs of his late wife it was a special moment to show the warm human side of the first and last soviet president he found here in millions of people around the world mikhail gorbachev repeatedly publicly reminded that his maternal grandfather has ukrainian roots, pantelecom hopkalo, he came from a peasant of the chernihiv province, he moved to stavropol in russia, where in 1931 the future soviet leader was born, i am still half ukrainian, my mother was ukrainian, my wife raisa also my first words said in ukrainian, the first songs i heard were ukrainian. t

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according to the mikhail gorbachev foundation, the politician will be buried in moscow at the novodevichyetery next to his wife raisa and maksimovna on the date of the funeral of sobchak's farewell ceremony later. now to in other news, the ukrainian military is inflicting new strikes on vital facilities, such as in novaya kakhovka where the kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is located , eight shellings were recorded the day before, according to the administration site, the gas pipeline of the power grid was damaged and dozens of houses were completely destroyed, seven were completely destroyed there were victims among civilians in civilian quarters they were beaten from american highmars, and in zaporizhia , local authorities are beating the territory of the nuclear power plant. they say that dozens of shells were fired over the past day alone, the number of shellings. in this district increased in recent days against the background of information about the forthcoming visit of the delegation. a mission of experts from the international atomic energy agency left this morning for the

he was 91 years old, as reported in the gorbachev foundation, he will be buried at the novodevichy cemetery next to his wife, ilya kanavin will continue. he showed up when he was most needed. the mood of the people is changing society everything of ours was in motion in the eighty-fifth received almost absolute power. in the largest country, a smiling general secretary, in an excellent suit with a southern accent, gorbachev fell in love with this country. he also did not look like his predecessors, just as perestroika and glasnost, proposed by him, did not look like dull soviet slogans, perestroika. so something needs to be done by oneself. , and not just carry out commands publicity. so you can speak, and not whisper, read the solzhenitsy. platova nabokov rybakov brodsky will not be imprisoned for this now and will not even be fired from work. as he was then met everywhere, he began to speak with people like a human being, even the word perestroika came into political use not after the plenum in january 1987 , but in april 1986 after the secretary general's speech to the workers of the vol

the tone of the dacha where politburo member fyodor kulakov once lived, the gorbachev foundation foundedhim, became a noticeable factor in social life, united with the help of gorbachev, germany made him an honorary citizen of berlin and assigned him. even his highest award is a big cross. the order of merit of the first degree from berlin was installed by him, but it doesn’t bother you that he didn’t put up a monument during his lifetime, and i think. what it is necessary to dress in russia, in russia, whether to erect a monument to gorbachev in russia, the attitude towards him is ambiguous; gorbachev sincerely aspired to his many years of efforts at the highest post of the country. from the soviet union, but he did not succeed, but it was under him that such values ​​\u200b\u200bthat were inaccessible, before we had values ​​\u200b\u200blike freedom of speech, private entrepreneurship. even with all his mistakes and miscalculations, the last general secretary will remain in the history and memory of russian citizens and the whole world as the largest reformer politician who changed the

two days after russia's invasion of ukraine, in february 2022, gorbachev foundation issued a call forut russia's modern political leaders did not care whether they had gorbachev support or not. to them, they would always be the man who allow the ussr to collapse. gorbachev sometimes expressed regret. >> [interpreter] i thought the best i could to defend the soviet union, but i failed. [end of translation] >> and in later years, he spent a lot more time defending his actions a soviet leader. >> [interpreter] perestroika achieved a lot. inside russia, we have democracy, free elections, freedom of conscience, private property, freedom to travel abroad, everything. [end of translation] >> he gave people freedoms, but struggle to feed them. more than 20 years later, many russians still blame gorbachev for the soviet union's humiliation and the hardships they endured. >> [interpreter] i remember the jump of prices. brad became more expensive. inflation was huge. [end of translation] >> [interpreter] i call for the trial mikhail gorbachev. [end of translation] >> gorbachev's unpopularity at

two days after russia's invasion of ukraine, in february 2022, gorbachev's foundation issued a call forcease-fire and peace talks. but russia's modern political leaders didn't care whether they had gorbachev's support or not. to them, he would always be the man who allowed the ussr to collapse. gorbachev sometimes expressed regret. >> translator: i fought the best i could to defend the soviet union. but i failed. >> but in later years he spent a lot more time defending his actions as soviet leader. >> translator: perestroika achieved a lot. inside russia, we had democracy, free elections. freedom of conscience. private property. freedom to travel abroad. everything. >> he gave people freedoms but struggled to feed them. more than 20 years later, many russians still blame gorbachev for the soviet union's humiliation and the hardships they endured. >> i remember the jump of prices. bread became more expensive, inflation that was huge. >> i call for the trial of mikhail gorbachev. >> gorbachev's unpopularity at home was rivaled in intensity by his star status abroad, where he was celebrate

nick: at moscow's gorbachev foundation today, his memory hangs larger than life. khail gorbachev oversaw the end of the soviet union, after trying to create the change he believed it needed to survive. >> despite the fact that it was not easy, there was hope. nick: the cold war's victors, today see it the same way. >> when history is written, he will be, i think, one of the authors of fantastic change for the better in the world. and what i worry about today is the current leadership in moscow is intent on undoing the good that mikhail gorbachev did. nick: russian president vladimir putin calls the war in ukraine an attempt to restore russian influence over historic russian territory lost by gorbachev. putin has long argued gorbachev trusted the west too much. and today putin's spokesman dmitry peksov suggested gorbachev had been naive. >> he sincerely wanted to believe that the cold war would end and an eternal romantic period between the new soviet union and the world would arrive. that romanticism was not justified. the bloodthirstiness of our opponents showed i

but why else did the gorbachev foundation remember, and why did i leave from there as a result to graduate didn't need her, but what struck me most was that i didn't i could continue to work there, er, on my own problems, because in iona there was a unique special library in general. where progressively is all the literature that only the magician came out abroad, including magazines and so on. naturally. we went there, there on receipt more, there all these people fly around the soviet union, which is tass and so on, including classified information. i did not go there, and it was possible to read it, using later dissertations to a large extent. here is where my first dissertation was made on such materials. i am i come once. uh, girls down there in the basement library. he says, lena is still closing, says tomorrow we will no longer give out anything. i say, where does it move? i say maybe it's time. she says, no, we don't know at all where it will be reformed. i say that there will also be a huge library room here, and here there will be a museum of mikhail sergeevich's gifts, that is,

the gorbachev foundation reported that they would bury him at the novodevichy cemetery next to his wifeof the knowledge society started at the sites in moscow, st. petersburg, nizhny novgorod, kamchatka territory, and for the first time in the lugansk people's republic, a state public figure, scientist and head of the company, actors, directors, athletes, marathon broadcasts are available to viewers, special fan zones with screens of more than two hundred lecturers and mentors are organized throughout the country in the regions will perform as part of five educational tracks. one of them, under the name of knowledge is power, is held in the center of moscow in the charge park, among the speakers is presidential press secretary dmitry peskov, the head of the lpr. leonid pasechnik and also the head of the all-russian popular front. mikhail kuznetsov he spoke about the initial tasks and new challenges faced by the organization, the president created the popular front in 2011 as a system of great feedback. and his task was to make sure that even the little problem that is somewhere away fro

gorbachev and documentaries about his era. check out the app and website. it so happened that for some time, though not for long, i worked for the foundation for about three monthsute of social sciences under the central committee of the cpsu. yes, and on the basis of this institute, after the ninety-first year, a foundation was created. gorbachev did it. yes, the financial academy is located here now. it is a gigantic complex of buildings where illegal immigrants were trained, where representatives of people's democratic movements were trained, and so on, but i was imprisoned because they reformed. this structure was not planted to parse the letters that mikhail sergeevich came to, and huge bales brought letters. we they had to not only be sorted, but also read and, uh, in by the way, hmm letters from abroad , germany occupied the first place after that, but there were quite a lot of letters from japan. apparently, this was connected with the hope for the kuril islands, and so on, and the united states of america well, the rest of eastern europe and so on are mostly laudatory; moreover, it struck me that people even invested in financial checks. we handed over

the lion said gorbachev's crucial role and bringing down the iron curtain opened the way for a free europe. and the foundation of then you, as president ronald reagan tweeted, the gorbachev was once a man was a man who was once a political adversary, but who ended up becoming a friend. now, in russia, it was a different tone, the kremlin hailed gorbachev as a great statesman said that he had romanticized prospects. the cordial relations with the west government spokesperson dmitri pascall said the relationship between the soviet union and the west had not works out due to what he called the west's bloodthirsty in us. and we can cross now to reagan lapierre. weddies uri rossetto is standing by hearing russians have a more mixed view of mikhail gorbachev. don't they? can you tell us about that? well, mikhail gorbachev was arguably the most courageous politician of the 20th century. he was able to change history to break apart something seemingly unbreakable, at the soviet union. mister garbage was also responsible for over a month ago, for a period of very difficult political reforms before the collapse of the

commission president also lafond alliance said gorbachev's crucial role in bringing down the iron curtain opened the way for a free europe. and the foundation of then you west president ronald reagan tweeted this. gorbachev was a man who was once a political adversary, but who ended up becoming a friend. the w's russian affairs analyst, constantine aga, joins us from vilios lithuania, constantine, you met him many times over the years. how was gorbachev regarded in russia in recent decades? well, it depends on who you talk to a minority, all russian liberal intelligentsia of that of reformist minded people were, was grateful to him, still are grateful to him for opening up the pos to liberalization in the soviet union. and basically, to the hopes of new russia, which still have to be realised. but uh, the majority of people in the country which in the saw the days was very heavily dependent on heavy industry and military industry. a lot of them revived him for ah, basically breaking up the country. they worked for end herb destroying their sense of imperial, dried. and this is exactly this sense of imperial pride and a post soviet complex's

foreign diplomacy of the european union, jose barrel, in turn, added that it was mikhail gorbachev who laid the foundation european union. the head of nato also, in turn, noted that, in his opinion, the first and only president of the ussr established cooperation with the north atlantic alliance. mikhail gorbachev's historic reforms led to the collapse of the soviet union helped end the cold war and created the opportunity for partnership between russia and nato his vision a better world remains a model. french president emanuel macron called gorbachev a man of the world, who, according to him, changed and i quote our common history funeral of mikhail gorbachev , olaf scholz de fanta left, and at the same time, not only the media, but also politicians in europe today, in their statements, are arguing about the role mikhail gorbachev in history, in particular in eastern europe, the departed mikhail gorbachev was posthumously called a criminal. he was a criminal from the point of view of a democratic state, who ordered the brutal suppression of peaceful protests in vilnius tbilisi alma-ata baku and other ci

gorbachev anti the people. here is his document with his signature documents, unfortunately, the foundation of his name was not pted gorbachev created immediately after his resignation, assuring yeltsin that he would no longer be engaged in politics. vladimir polyakov speaks of communication with gorbachev as a gift of fate. he was a man, you know, a man with morals. he uh never betrayed his principles people's artist of russia yevgeny mironov played gorbachev in the sensational performance met with him while working on the production, however, on the stage of the theater of nations, gorbachev was an unambiguously positive character, a romantic in love, despite the huge test. he remained sure of himself. what a further combiner he was, clean, open, absolutely frank. ah, she remained such a decent person, when in 1988 gorbachev went to england and did not visit the grave of karl marx what was mandatory for members of the cpsu philosophers, alexander zinoviev immediately noted the beginning and the era of betrayal gorbachev entered the history of our country. in the saddest way, as the first main destroyer of tha

commission, president of lafond alliance, said gorbachev's crucial role in bringing down the iron curtain opened the way for a free europe and the foundation of their new ways. president ronald reagan tweeted, the gorbachev was a man who was once a political adversary, but who ended up becoming a friend of all the moscow bureau chief fury. rashid, or joins us from reger. our political correspondent, thomas sparrow, is here in berlin. tours for germans. gorbachev is revered for his role in the re unification of east and west germany. absolutely the fall of the berlin wall and the whole process that led to german reunification is undoubtedly the most significant political development in germany in recent decades. and german politicians, not only now but also in the past have time and time again highlighted the very important role that mister gorbachev played in that process. it was really a very significant role in february 1990. when then chancellor hadn't what coil was trying to get support from the united states but also from the soviet union. it was particularly important to visit that he made to moscow way precisely. got gorbachev's sup

commission president, also a funder lion, said gorbachev, crucial role in bringing down the iron curtain opened the way for a free europe. and the foundation of then you, as president ronald reagan tweeted that gorbachev was a man who was once a political adversary, but who ended up becoming a friend o from riga, our full and moscow bureau chief fury the shadow, joins us along without a political correspond. melinda crane. belinda, starting with you for the germans. this would be clear, but for people abroad, just explain what, what sort of a ro gorbachev did play in that re unification process between east and west germany. many of the tributes that are now flowing in here in germany referred to him as one of the architects of unified germany. he is deeply, deeply revered, in this country, and many germans remember a legendary sentence that he uttered in october 1989. so one month before the wall fell, when he said, if you get there too late, history will punish you. and actually he said to have said something slightly more prosaic that you get into trouble in life if you don't deal with what it throws at you. and in fact, he dealt with w

foundation of former u. s. president ronald reagan tweeted this. gorbachev was a man who was once a political adversary, but who ended up becoming a friends o. e. wayne mary spent 26 years in the u. s. foreign service, including at the embassy in moscow at the end of the u. s. s. r. he spoke to me earlier about corporate has legacy. i think at the moment, given what's going on in the war in ukraine. perhaps his greatest legacy is that he let the soviet union fail without spilling a lot of blood to try to preserve it. now he did accountant, some bloodshed in lithuania, some torture when it really came to the question of, are you willing to use massive tours to preserve the communist party, to preserve your own power and to preserve the soviet union? he would not do it. and i think that legacy today is something that should be recognized as they are a great many powerful figures in the world who are willing to use force to hold on to their power and to hold on to their political system. gorbachev intimately, despite his personal commitment to the linen his system, despite his personal belief in soviet communi

gorbachev, one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century has died. he was 91 years old. russia's vladimir putin expressed his deepest condolences while the reagan foundationnt mourning the loss of a political adversary who ended up becoming a friend. here is cbs' charlie d'agata. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: he didn't look like a revolutionary or s one, but mikhail sergeyevich gorbachev changed the course of history. born into a farming family in 1931 in what was then the soviet union, gorbachev went to moscow to study law, joined the communist party, and met and married raisa. together they set out to change the face of communism. before gorbachev, soviet leaders never ventured into the streets, let alone pressed the flesh. but in 1985, the youngest ever secretary general of the communist party swept the old ways aside. his twin policies of glasnost and perestroika opened the country up. when gorbachev met president reagan in washington, d.c. in 1987 to sign the nuclear arms reduction treaty, it was clear that former enemies had found common ground. >> mr. general secretary, though my pronunciation may give you difficulty, the maxi

gorbachev, one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, has died. he was 91 years old. russia's vladimir putin expressed his deepest condolences, while the reagan foundationut out a statement mourning the loss of a political adversary who ended up becoming a friend. here's cbs' charlie d'agata. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: he didn't look like a revolutionarym or set out to be one, but mikhail gorbachev changed the course of history. born into a farming family in 1931 in what was then the soviet union, gorbachev went to moscow to study law, join the communist party, and met and married together, they set out to change the face of communism. before gorbachev, soviet leaders never ventured into the streets, let alone press the flesh, but in 1985, the youngest-ever secretary-general of the communist party swept the old ways aside. his twin policies of glasnost and perestroika opened the country up. when gorbachev met president reagan in washington, d.c. in 1987 to sign the nuclear arms reduction treaty, it was clear that former enemies had found common ground. >> mr. general secretary, though my pronunciation may give you difficulty, th

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charitable foundation circle of kindness are preparing for the new academic year of the history of children who have already been helped all over the world today they remember mikhail gorbachevthey remember, they give grades and argue about what they did and did not do, what they dreamed about and what they came to how history has changed, and not only in our country. now history. himself a romantic from big politics unlike those who were before him, an open and active author and a witness of great changes, the last general section, as epss the first and only president of the soviet union the era of gorbachev a time full of hope and shock. he knew for sure that he couldn't live like this anymore. and as it should be, then, perhaps, no one knew perestroika and glasnost, the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan at the end of the cold war and the collapse of the soviet union, which became a big blow for mikhail sergeyevich. he knew how to admit mistakes and responsibility himself never filmed. and in spite of everything, he believed in people and believed in people in a telegram with condolences from vladimir putin. oh, gorbachev led our country during a period of complex dram

gorbachev has been ill for we're long time. ah, i last saw him in 2018 when my biography of him came out in russian. and he held a reception at his foundation. ah, he came in using a wheelchair or a walker to avoid using a wheelchair. he came from a hospital. he was clearly had slowed down. his face was bloated, presumably, from medications he was taking. bob, he had slowed down, but he was, his mind was still sharp. and there was a, there was a documentary film bade towards the end by a couple of russians, a director and a writer. and in that they interview him at great length about his whole career. and you can see him in this film. you can see him agonizing. you can see him sort of scrutinizing his own record and trying to come to terms with both his virtues, but also his failures. he was a wise man and i think he was wise enough to see that his record was mixed in the end uncle. so much for sharing your experience with a thank you for talking to us. william tubman, author of the biography gorbachev his life in time. thank you for joining us on how to my pleasure. thank you. and still ahead on this news, our legal battles of pakistan's,

bush foundation remembers the former soviet leader's influence saying he stuck his neck out at a critical time in history to guarantee world peace. our thoughts and prayers are with the gorbachevily. >> translator: history is a fickle lady. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: but i'm proud of the life that i have lived. >> reporter: mikhail gorbachev died at the age of 91 from a serious and long illness. he will now be buried next to his late wife raysa. he is a man who proves the point individuals can change the course of history. er cled rbacv a o caedof said rbhev isurvid by a a?ughter and twora >>we turtoai a t rnin oa ntl cl distsptors on a high stakes mission into the war zone making their way to the power plant caught in that crossfire. tom soufi burridge is on the ground with the latest on this one. good morning, tom. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia. yes, that nuclear plant is just down the river from here on the other side in territory controlled by the russians. president zelenskyy saying his officials will do everything they can to help that team of u.n. nuclear inspectors. much though depends on the russian military. what access it gives the inspectors if th

foundation russia, few paid attention to his calls for more democracy. >> he's a hero to many. the majority of the world, he's a hero. to a minority, he's a villain. >> mikhail gorbachev was never forgiven for the demise of his country and died largely reviled by his own people. keir simmons, nbc news. >> joining us live from london is keir simmons. you cannot watch that -- i watched an incredible documentary about gorbachev during the long months of the covid lockdown. you cannot watch that and try to understand putin as some sort of reaction to that reception of gorbachev's legacy. >> reporter: that's so right, nicole. gorbachev's life is a lesson in the reality that the true judge, the ultimate judge, is history, or as toll stoi -- to paraphrase tolstoy, the greatest force in life and time is patience, because we only saw the impact of gorbachev, and he was one of the most singular important figures in the 20th century. americans' lives are different as a result of mikhail gorbachev. but only really saw how in the past few decades. you're so right, because so many russians felt that their economy crumbled, that they lost their empire, if you like, in eastern europe

the termination of his activities as head of the ussr after his resignation, he created the gorbachev foundation, which was engaged in the study of perestroika and issues of russian and world history, as the news agency reports, the first and last president of the ussr will be buried at the novodevichy cemetery gorbachev's flights next to his wife. ukrainian

the termination of his activities as head of the ussr after his resignation, he created the gorbachev foundation, which was engaged in the study of perestroika and issues of russian and world history, as the news agency reports, the first and last president of the ussr will be buried at the novodevichy cemetery gorbachev's flights next to his wife. ukrainian armed formations inflicted new attacks on the settlements of the donetsk people's republic about the next shelling, the joint center for monitoring the coordination of the ceasefire in the petrovsky district reports. donetsk, two civilians were killed , and the kirovsky kuibyshevsky districts were also targeted. nine people were injured, another one was injured in gorlovka, where the substations were de-energized without electricity. more than one and a half thousand subscribers remained, they reported shelling and the authorities of the kherson region, the militants inflicted another blow from american harmers to the elderly areas of nova kakhovka, a woman was killed, known about the victims and destruction. donetsk was brought by a large d