Tagged: Gorbachev

2nd September 2022

Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral and will stay away

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.

Opinion

1st September 2022

The Complex Conundrum

“These were the acts of a rare leader-one with the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career to achieve it” remarked US President Joe...

Opinion / World Daily

11th December 2018

Bleak See on the Black Sea

Following the latest events in and around the Black Sea, two old questions are reappearing. Both are inviting us for a repeated elaboration: If a Monroe doctrine (about the hemispheric security exclusivity) is recognised...