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Mikhail Gorbachev: America needs a Perestroika

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Duration: 24:36
Updated: 19 Dec 2014
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The Ukrainian issue has intensified the tension that existed between the West and Russia: now, another Cold War is possibly lurking on the horizon. Are we to witness another stand-off - or will it be averted? The relations between Russia and the West seem to be stuck at dead-end, so is there hope common ground will emerge between the two? We ask these questions to the man who prides himself on ending the Cold War, the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, on Sophie&Co; today. Follow @SophieCo_RT Read the full transcript here: http://on.rt.com/i653m9 RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.

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BBC HARDtalk - Mikhail Gorbachev - President of the Soviet Union 1990-1991 (10/11/14)

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Updated: 11 Nov 2014
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HARDtalk is in Berlin as the city marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - that extraordinary moment which dramatised the collapse of the communist system and the end of the Cold War. Stephen Sackur speaks to Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, architect of the policy of reform and openness which was supposed to revitalise the Soviet empire, but instead hastened its demise. How does he see east-west relations today? Credits Interviewed Guest - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Interviewer - Stephen Sackur http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t4bd1

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'I fought for USSR, but failed': RT talks to Mikhail Gorbachev

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Duration: 12:22
Updated: 02 Mar 2011
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The end of the Cold War, the reunification of Germany, liberalism and Perestroyka. The USSR's first and last president, Mikhail Gorbachev celebrates his 80th birthday today, and his legacy includes being hailed as the father of Russia's democracy. Mikhail Gorbachev was born in a small village in the south of the country, and became leader of the USSR in 1985. With his economic and political reforms, he paved the way for democracy in Russia. His best known reform is dubbed "Perestroyka", which aimed to revamp the country without destroying the basis of socialism. His initiatives also led to the abolishment of state censorship and the creation of free speech in the country. Gorbachev received the Nobel peace prize in 1990. A year later, however, he was removed from power in a coup which saw the collapse of the Soviet Union and Boris Yeltsin become president. But Mikhail Gorbachev still says his reforms were timely and necessary. "We realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer, that we had to take a risk," he told RT in an interview. "But we couldn't postpone it, we needed changes." Gorbachev does not agree when people say that Perestroyka failed: "It didn't fail. It was disrupted, derailed, stopped. But still, Perestroyka achieved a lot. Inside Russia, we had democracy, free elections, freedom of consciousness, private property, freedom to travel abroad --everything. Also, glasnost. There was so much openness -- the entire country was affected. People realized they had finally got some freedom, an opportunity to act." The first USSR president points out that the end of the Cold War was among key goals of his administration: "In foreign affairs, we put an end to the Cold War. We normalized our relationship with the US, we reunited Germany -- we didn't send our tanks or troops there. All our units in Eastern Europe stayed where they were. It wasn't always easy." However, many things did not work as planned, Gorbachev confessed. "At the beginning, when we made our first mistakes, we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes -- we were self-confident," he said. "But in public politics, I don't think we ever lost a major battle," Mikhail Gorbachev concluded. RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com

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How the Cold War Ended: Mikhail Gorbachev Interview on Communism, the U.S. & Reagan (1996)

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Duration: 57:27
Updated: 05 Feb 2014
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, tr. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born after the October Revolution. Alongside East Germany's Egon Krenz and Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski, Gorbachev is one of the last surviving leaders of an Eastern Bloc state as of 2014. Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant Ukrainian--Russian family, and in his teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party, and soon became very active within it. In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the deaths of Soviet Leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level. Gorbachev's policies of openness and restructuring as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War, removed the constitutional role of the Communist Party in governing the state, and inadvertently led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992 as well as Honorary Doctorates from various universities as discussed below. In September 2008, Gorbachev and business oligarch Alexander Lebedev announced they would form the Independent Democratic Party of Russia,[1] and in May 2009 Gorbachev announced that the launch was imminent.[2] This was Gorbachev's third attempt to establish a political party, having started the Social Democratic Party of Russia in 2001 and the Union of Social Democrats in 2007. Although he has credited Vladimir Putin for stabilizing Russia in the aftermath of the initial and turbulent years of the post-Soviet era, Gorbachev has become critical of both Putin and his successor (and predecessor) Dmitry Medvedev since at least March 2011.[52] His main grievances about the "tandem" are backsliding on democracy, corruption, and the dominance of security officers. Gorbachev is also dissatisfied by the fact that he has not been allowed to register his social democratic party.[53] When being interviewed by the BBC to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the August Coup, Gorbachev again announced his dissatisfaction with the policies and rule of Putin. Speaking of the status of democracy in the Russian Federation, he proclaimed: "The electoral system we had was nothing remarkable but they have literally castrated it". Gorbachev also stated that he believed that Putin should not have sought a third term as the Russian president in 2012.[54] In response to the 2011 Russian protests as a result of United Russia's controversial victory in the Russian legislative election, 2011, he called on the authorities to hold a new election, citing electoral irregularities and ballot box stuffing.[55] In a political lecture delivered to the RIA-Novosti news agency in April 2013, Gorbachev decried Putin's retreat from democracy, noting that in Russia "politics is increasingly turning into imitation democracy" with "all power in the hands of the executive branch". Gorbachev addressed Putin directly, stating that "to go further on the path of tightening the screws, having laws that limit the rights and freedoms of people, attacking the news media and organizations of civil society, is a destructive path with no future". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev

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Interview: Gorbachev On Putin

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Duration: 3:50
Updated: 17 Feb 2012
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With Russia's presidential elections just weeks away, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev spoke to RFE/RL's Russian Service in Moscow about prime minister and presidential hopeful Vladimir Putin's authoritarian tendencies and capacity to change.

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CBC Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev (1990s)

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Duration: 8:31
Updated: 04 Dec 2013
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When the time comes to write the history of the last part of the 20th century, the name Mikhail Gorbachev will stand out. He helped changed the world, ending the cold war, bringing an end to communism and presiding over the break-up of the Soviet Union. He sat down with the CBC's Don Murray for the first interview he had ever given to Canadian television.

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"SophieCo" Cold War, Warm Heart

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Duration: 24:49
Updated: 10 Aug 2015
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Mikhail Gorbachev to RT: America wanted to rule the world but lost its way The Ukrainian issue has intensified the tension that existed between the West and Russia: now, another Cold War is possibly lurking on the horizon. Are we to witness another stand-off - or will it be averted? The relations between Russia and the West seem to be stuck at dead-end, so is there hope common ground will emerge between the two? We ask these questions to the man who prides himself on ending the Cold War, the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, on Sophie&Co; today. Recorded from RT, SophieCo, August 10, 2015

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Mikhail Gorbachev Reflects on Reykjavik & Status of Nuclear Weapons Today

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Duration: 10:03
Updated: 20 Sep 2012
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Mikhail Gorbachev was Soviet Union's last head of State until its dissolution in 1991. Both his internal reforms (Glasnost and Perestroika) and his new approach to international détente, in particular his pursuit of far-reaching nuclear disarmament measures, played an important role in ending the Cold War. The summit of Reykjavik, Iceland, from 11 to 12 October 1986, was the second meeting between Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan. As we now know from declassified documents, the two leaders came close to an agreement to abolish all nuclear weapons. --- On the eve of the summit's 26th anniversary, Gorbachev reflects on the paradigm shift that Reykjavik brought about and on the status of nuclear weapons today. The dramatic moments of this summit were recently re-enacted in the staged reading of the play 'Reykjavik' by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes in New York on 27 September 2012: http://www.ctbto.org/specials/reykjavik-in-the-spotlight/ ***Disclaimer: The views expressed in this interview do not necessarily reflect the positions of the CTBTO.

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Mikhail Gorbachev video interview: Green Cross Returns to Rio

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Duration: 3:21
Updated: 19 Jun 2012
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President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was invited at the 1992 Earth Summit to create a "Red Cross for the environment" and did so the next year, provided this video statement that was shown 16 June 2012 at the Green Cross Returns to Rio event held in Rio de Janeiro on the sidelines of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. For more information, go to: http://www.gcint.org/rioplus20

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Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev

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Duration: 5:58
Updated: 30 May 2009
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Ap Euro Project, watch the suprise ending!!!!

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Gorbachev Resigns: December 25, 1991

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Updated: 23 Sep 2011
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At the end of a dramatic year that witnessed an attempted coup against his rule, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party's authority, President Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable on December 25, 1991. In a ten minute address to the nation, he officially resigned from his position as Soviet President, and by the end of that historic night, the Red Flag was no longer flying above the Kremlin. Simon covered the Soviet Union's last moments for "World Monitor", then the nightly news program produced by The Christian Science Monitor for America's "Discovery Channel"

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Mikhail Gorbachev's Interview (Russian, Audio Only)

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Duration: 2:25
Updated: 30 Sep 2012
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São apenas os primeiros 2 minutos da entrevista que Mikhail Gorbachev concedeu a Rádio "Ekho Moskvy" (só áudio, com legendas em português). First 2 Minutes and 20 Seconds of AUDIO ONLY Mikhail Gorbachev's Interview to Radio "Echo Moskvy". The full video is here: http://echo.msk.ru/programs/48minut/804899-echo/#video

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Studio 2: Mikhail Gorbachev

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Duration: 20:44
Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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An exclusive interview with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in which he discusses the state of affairs in Russia and his perspective on some of the day's most pressing international issues.

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Brokaw Details Interview With Gorbachev | Flashback | NBC News

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Duration: 3:20
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
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In light of recent tension between Russia and the west, we look back to Tom Brokaw's historic interview with Mikhail Gorbachev. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more Flashback here: http://bit.ly/WatchFlashback NBC News is a leading source of global news and information. Here you will find clips from NBC Nightly News, Meet The Press, and our original series Debunker, Flashback, Nerdwatch, and Show Me. Subscribe to our channel for news stories, technology, politics, health, entertainment, science, business, and exclusive NBC investigations. Connect with NBC News Online! Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Google+: http://nbcnews.to/PlusNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC Follow NBC News on Pinterest: http://nbcnews.to/PinNBC Brokaw Details Interview With Gorbachev | Flashback | NBC News

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euronews interview - Gorbachev reflects on course of modern Russia

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Duration: 7:46
Updated: 08 Mar 2012
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http://www.euronews.com/ You might think 20 years after the demise of the Soviet Union the then-leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, would surely be relegated to the cast of political "has beens". But even without an active political role, he remains a firm fixture of Russian social life. Increasingly critical of Putin's ruling style he has often advised him to step down. euronews' Moscow correspondent Alexandre Shashkov met him to talk about the latest elections, and recent and yet-to-come social changes. Alexandre Shashkov: "The presidential elections are behind us, and now it's clear that in 2 months Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin will switch places. What do you think of the electoral campaign and the results of these elections?" Mikhail Gorbachev: "What's different in these elections from the previous ones, is that during the electoral campaign it became clear that society is emerging from a kind of vegetative state. People are starting to influence the agndas of the Prime Minister, future President, and Duma as well. The questions of serious change of the system, its democratization, and general reforms to make the electoral system better, remain high on the agenda. Because before, and this often angered me, the system got reformed in a way that only made it worse. It rejected the person, and pushed them out of the electoral process. Now it has to be vice versa, the system must be inclusive, and President Medvedev, in his last days in office, proposed a Constitutional Assembly, to correct the current system taking into account recent protests and the demands of the electorate who asked for a better system. I hope this doesn't just stay a proposition and is followed by results." Alexandre Shashkov: "Do you think Medvedev will succeed, that he will have enough time for these changes?" Mikhail Gorbachev: "I think not, because we lack any experience in these sorts of changes. We know the Constitution as it is - but how to change it, in what way?.. Well, in what way already becomes clear. For example we have to bring back the elected regional governors, scrapped by Putin. If the governors are not appointed by the Kremlin, but elected by the people, they won't leave the authorities be. They will be pushing their point of view. Yes, it will be harder to deal with them, they will become more sure of themselves, will acquire political independence - but, frankly, that's what we need. People trust us, elect us, but we don't trust people back to have a say in how to run a country. If people ask for more say, then it's mature enough to act. And that's positive change." Alexandre Shashkov: "Do you think Putin as the new president will continue Medvedev's drive for democratization, to reform the country's political system?" Mikhail Gorbachev: "The president-elect - I think we can already call him that - has himself said many times that the issues of electoral process, electoral legislation and, generally, political processes will occupy a large part of his agenda. Well, this is what he states, even if from time to time he says, "Let's before that do this or that in the economy...". No, nothing should come before. And the scale of changes that were announced by the president - if this is not just for show, if we are to take him seriously - is such that it will require an enormous effort from the executive and legislative power, from the whole of society. And, frankly, even if Putin didn't want to tackle these issues, and wanted to go back to the old ways, he can't anymore. Moreover, I think soon enough the question of early parliamentary elections will arise because we know in what condition the current one was elected. For us to have an active and effective parliament, we've got to have a new parliament." Alexandre Shashkov: "Let's look back a bit. Medvedev is at the end of his mandate. What can you say about his 4 years in power?" Mikhail Gorbachev: "Well, generally speaking, I consider Medvedev as a man with perspective and a future role, but he lacked experience and the time to accumulate it. Once he said to me, "Well, I have years ahead of me". Well, it means he wants to continue with his drive. If this is the case, good for him. But he could have been more useful, and should have acted more decisively, which would have put him in a more prominent position than the one he is in now. He's nobody to blame for that but himslef, and I hope he learns from that." Alexandre Shashkov: "Amongst the presidential candidates, who do you prefer?" Mikhail Gorbachev: Find us on: Youtube http://bit.ly/zr3upY Facebook http://www.facebook.com/euronews.fans Twitter http://twitter.com/euronews

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev calls for Ukraine unity

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Updated: 24 Feb 2014
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says that for EU, US or Russia to attempt to gain advantage over the Ukraine "for their own benefit would be wrong" Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych set off a wave of protests by shelving an agreement with the EU in November and turning instead for a bailout loan from Russia. Within weeks, the protests expanded to include outrage over corruption and human rights abuses, leading to calls for President Yanukovych's resignation. This morning acting government of Ukraine issued an arrest warrant for President Yanukovych, last reportedly seen in the pro-Russian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, accusing him of mass crimes against protesters who stood up for months against his rule. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev speaking during an interview in the UAE city of Sharjah said that it was important that Ukraine is held together amid the crisis. He said that the months of protests that drove President Viktor Yanukovych from office stemmed from his government's failure to act democratically. The former Soviet leader added that any attempt by the European Union, the United States or Russia to "gain an advantage for themselves for their own benefit would be wrong." Ukraine is deeply divided between largely pro-Russian eastern regions and western areas that long for closer ties with the EU. Source: APTN Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.

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Gorbachev: Reagan Was a 'Good Partner' in Peace

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Updated: 27 Jul 2011
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev recalls former President Ronald Reagan as a "great president." Gorbachev spoke to Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy in Moscow in the lead-up to what would have been the 40th U.S. president's 100th birthday on Feb. 6, 2011. This is an excerpt of the wide-ranging, 33 minute video interview, which can be seen at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phviVYfC3-4 The videos on my YouTube channel are examples of work I've either supervised and executive produced or directly produced and edited.

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The Daily Show - Wait, Whose Side Are We On Again? - Jason Jones's Departure

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Updated: 27 Mar 2015
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Jason Jones departs The Daily Show after ten years as the go-to hunk and the foreign affairs correspondent who brought actual field pieces to the show. * Watch the latest full episode of The Daily Show on CC.com and the CC app: http://on.cc.com/1zI8VsE

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RUSSIA: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S RESPONSE TO BORIS YELTSIN'S ILLNESS

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Russian/Nat Boris Yeltsin is incapable of fulfilling his duties and should step down immediately, according to Mikhail Gorbachev. Speaking in an exclusive interview with APTV, the former Soviet president had few friendly words for his old political sparring partner. Boris Yeltsin's opponents are renewing their call for his resignation. That's after the Kremlin confirmed today that the Russian president has pneumonia. The 65-year-old president was hospitalised yesterday, two weeks after he returned to work. Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is one of Yeltsin's critics - he says the Russian leader is a sick man and should quit. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) "Our president is physically unable to work. Politically, he has outlived himself, too. We've had the elections, but, as a matter of fact, still have no president. We just don't have a president!" SUPER CAPTION: Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president Gorbachev said Yeltsin today reminded him of his days in the politburo under the ailing Leonid Brezhnev and other geriatric Soviet leaders. Yeltsin's speech, gait and inability to address the problems facing Russia bear striking similarities, Gorbachev said, to the old Soviet Kremlin bosses. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) "There are many similarities between Brezhnev and Yeltsin: the way they walk the same way , the same difficulty in speaking, the same pretence of working two or three hours a day when actually no real work is done... I took part in just this kind of sham when I was a politburo member under Brezhnev. Such were the rules of the game." SUPER CAPTION: Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president While calling on Yeltsin to resign his office for the good of the country, Gorbachev admitted that he held out little hope that the Russian president would heed his plea. Gorbachev believes the ailing Russian leader will do everything possible to stay in power. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) "Knowing Boris Nikolayevich the way I do, I doubt very much he will make this wise and responsible step of resigning. I've followed his political career since the fall of the Soviet Union, and my conclusion is Yeltsin is not the kind of person to resign. He doesn't have it in him . He will do everything possible to keep the country in political turmoil, will continue to divide and rule and do his utmost to remain in power." SUPER CAPTION: Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president But doctors who've treated the 65-year-old president say otherwise. The president's heart surgeon says Yeltsin's condition is good and that his current illness is unrelated to recent heart surgery. And he isn't alone in his illness. Moscow health officials estimate that 64-thousand people in the Russian capital have contracted the flu -- or something like it -- since New Year's Day. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/71d7680a920fe97f3872b35941b3a7df Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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Anniversary of 1991 coup plus Gorbachev interview

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Updated: 30 Jul 2015
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APTN - Moscow - 19 August 1991 1. Wide shot, Soviet tanks roll into Moscow as the Coup starts 2. Pull out, tanks on the streets of Moscow 3. Zoom in, Coup leaders press conference 4. Mid shot, Coup leaders Gennady Yanayev (right) and Boris Pugo 5. Wide shot, Muscovites erecting barricades 6. Wide shot, people chanting "Shame, shame' to the military APTN - Moscow - 15 August , 2001 7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union in 1991 "They (Coup leaders) were serious people ... smart people. They did it because their time was up, and they couldn't agree to that." APTN - Moscow - 19 August 1991 8. Mid shot, people trying to stop tanks 9. Wide shot, man throwing himself under the tank 10. Mid shot, Boris Yeltsin comes to greet his supporters 11. Wide shot, Yeltsin appeals to the crowd 12. Zoom in, Yeltsin speaks 13. Panning shot, people cheering APTN - Moscow -15 August 2001 14. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union in 1991 "He (Yeltsin) found a courage to stand against the coup, to lead the resistance, in fact. The situation was very tense than and no one could predict the outcome of it. One should give Yeltsin his due - he played a historical role back then, defeating the Coup leaders in their aspiration for power" APTN - Moscow - August , 1991 15. Wide shot, pro-democracy protesters outside the White House (Yeltsin's residence) 16. Mid shot, protesters erect barricade 17. Wide shot, trolley buses put across the road as a barricade 18. Mid shot, pro-democracy protesters 19. Close shot, same 20. Mid shot, APC breaks through the barricade 21. Same 22. Panning shot, burning APC 23. Wide shot, burning APC 24. Various, burning APCs and trolley buses 25. Various, crowd 26. Mid shot, Mikhail Gorbachev returns to Moscow after the Coup' defeat 27. Wide shot, Boris Yeltsin waves Russian flag STORYLINE: On the balmy day of August 19, 1991 shocked Muscovites watched the Soviet Army tanks roll into the Russian capital. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was at his seaside residence in distant Crimea when the hardline communist coup organisers visited him and urged him to give up power. When he refused, they put him under house arrest, announced a nationwide state of emergency and rolled tanks into Moscow. The group of his closest lieutenants, included the all-powerful Army and State Security and KGB chiefs. The result was an uproar across the Soviet Union, thousands went on to the streets to erect barricades in defiance of curfew orders. 10 years on, Mikhail Gorbachev says the coup organisers cared for one thing only - their personal well-being. He said he was too busy preparing the signing of a union treaty that would have given more power to the former Soviet republics and less to the centre, and underestimated the threat from some power-hungry members of his inner circle. On August 19, 1991, pro-democracy legislators gathered at the White House on the Moscow River, where the Russian parliament met. Boris Yeltsin, at the time president of the Soviet republic of Russia, rallied resistance from on top of a tank. He and the legislators were unequivocally opposed to rolling back the reforms put in place by Gorbachev. They called on their supporters to take to the streets and disobey orders of the coup administration. Several thousand people gathered outside the White House, resolved to fight if necessary After two days of tense stand-off on the streets of Moscow commanders of several military units decided to pledge their allegiance to Yeltsin and his government. After several short but vicious streets, troops loyal to the coup leaders admitted defeat and left Yeltsin and his supporters as winners. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/df87f74bd0c360814bcd0259aaec761c Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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Alan Watt - Exposing Mikhail Gorbachev

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More revealing quotes below: "The State of the World Forum will focus on the fundamental challenges and opportunities as we enter the next phase of human development. It is being held in the belief that at this momentous juncture in history, we are giving birth to the first global civilization." Mission Statement from "The State of the World Forum" sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation, located at the Presidio in San Francisco attended by among others George W H Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Maurice Strong, Ted Turner and Bill Gates. (1995) "The environmental crisis is the cornerstone of the new world order." Mikhail Gorbachev, speaking at a World Government planning session held at the State of the World Forum at the Presidio, in San Francisco hinting that that Globalists would use the so-called environmental crisis as a platform to argue in favour of a world government, which they claim is essential to solve the crisis. Environmentalism and its associated false science of "greenhouse effect," "global warming" "climate change" etc are used to confuse and delude people into believing a catastrophic event lies in the near future because of rampaging humanity and uncontrolled use of natural resources. This is great lie. Environmentalism is part of the socialist move for World Empire and is thus a mechanism of control and regulation .... It is all about control ... control of everyone everywhere from the cradle to the grave (1995) "..The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move towards larger, more stable, more cooperative units." Zigbniew Brzezinski, speaking at the Gorbachev Conference, (1995) "We need a new paradigm of development, in which the environment will be priority ... World civilization as we know it will soon end... We have very little time and we must act ... the need for sustainable development ... and the need for global environmental security [which is only possible if we] change our mindset - the way humankind views the world .... If we can address the environment problem, we have hope ... but it will have to be done within a new system, a new paradigm ...[but it is imperative for us to] change our current values [and to] join forces [with others around the world] since environmental problems are of a global nature .... By the year 2002 we will be presenting, the final draft of the Earth Charter! ... The main work is still ahead of us [moreover] the United States can play an important role in helping to establish the New International Order." Mikhail Gorbachev, former dictator of Russia and "radical environmentalist," speaking at the Clowes Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana. (1996) "Cosmos is my God; Nature is my God," Mikhail Gorbachev: Former Soviet dictator is the archetypal "watermelon Marxist" -- green on the outside, Red, very, very Red on the inside. His declaration to Charlie Rose in a PBS television interview (1996) "My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a 'Sermon on the Mount,' that provides a guide for human behavior toward the environment in the next century and beyond." Mikhail Gorbachev: former dictator of the Soviet Empire and KGB bigwig in an interview with the LA Times regarding the Earth Charter, the New Age inspired document that will be used to bring about a Global Empire founded on tyranny (1997) Quotes from: http://www.overlordsofchaos.com/html/1985-89.html http://www.overlordsofchaos.com/html/1990-94.html http://www.overlordsofchaos.com/html/1995-99.html http://www.livinglifefully.com/flo/flocallfornewvalues.htm

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Mikhail Gorbachev Speaks With RFE/RL

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Updated: 23 Oct 2009
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In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Russian Service, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, which he blamed for fraud in regional elections earlier this month. Widespread allegations of serious violations prompted general outrage and calls to reform the country's authoritarian political system. Gorbachev spoke to RFE/RL correspondent Lyudmila Telen in the Moscow offices of his Gorbachev Foundation.

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Rio+20: Mikhail Gorbachev on the need for urgent change to save the planet

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Duration: 5:44
Updated: 14 Jun 2012
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New interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Founding President of Green Cross International, on the need for urgent economic and social change so to promote true sustainable development that does not over-consume and waste natural resources, while at the same time ensures opportunities and peace for humanity. The interview comes ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil (Rio+20) that started on 13 June and continues until 22 June. For more information on Green Cross activities in Rio, go to: http://www.gcint.org/rioplus20

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