Mikhail Gorbachev: The New Russia

MG answering students’ questions (2010)

Moskovskiye Novosti

real channel of communication for Glasnost and Perestroika

Moskovsky Komsomolets

Mulally, Alan

Mulroney, Brian

Munich

Conference on Security Policy (2007)

Max-Joseph-Platz

Town Hall on Marienplatz

Muratov, Dmitry

murders

innumerable monuments to mass murderers

Nakasone, Yasuhiro

Naryshkin, Sergey

Nashi (youth group)

Natasha (letter-writer)

Nation, The (US magazine)

National Children’s Hospital

National Constitution Center, US (Liberty Medal 2008)

National Investment Council

nationalism

crude

euphoric

extreme

normal

see also ultra-nationalism

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

decisions to strengthen military presence in countries adjacent to Russia

expansion of

consequences of

Russia’s objection to continuing enlargement of

time the West’s leaders stopped trying to draw Ukraine into

see also North Atlantic Council

NATO-Russia Council

natural monopolies

natural resources

country needs systematic tax on

dependence on

exports of

depletion of

shortages of

squandered

where best to apply revenues from

Nazarbayev, Nursultan

Nazi Germany

see also Hitler

Nekipelov, Alexander

Nemtsov, Boris

neo-Bolshevism

neo-conservatives

neo-liberalism

radical

neo-Stalinism

Netherlands

vote against draft European Constitution

new elections

annulment and

need for

New Eurasia Foundation

New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Prague 2010)

New Thinking

basic postulates of

principles of

relevance of

see also Understanding Perestroika (MG)

New Times

New York

Council on Foreign Relations

Millennium Summit (2000)

State of the World Forum (2000)

UN General Assembly (1986)

World Trade Center attack (2001)

see also Economic Club

New York Times

Newsday

Newsweek

Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Nigeria

Nikonov, Alexander

Nixon, Richard M. ix

Nizhny Novgorod

Nobel Peace Prize

World Summit of Laureates

North Atlantic Council

North Korea

North Rhine-Westphalia

see also Cologne; Düsseldorf; Gütersloh

Northern Hemisphere heatwaves

Norway

see also Heyerdahl

Novaya Gazeta

MG, Irina G-V and Editor-in-Chief at offices of (2000)

murder of journalist

see also Muratov

Novgorod

Novosibirsk

Akademgorodok/Stankosib factory

Novosti see Moskovskiye Novosti ; RIA Novosti

Novo-Ogarevo

NTV (independent television station)

attack launched against

subjected to systematic siege

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968)

Nuclear Threat Initiative

nuclear weapons

banning

countries which tested (late 1990s)

eliminating

idea of a world without

inherited

MG’s call for radical reduction of

need to repudiate

problem of

renounced

securely under control

tactical

see also arms race; Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Nuclear Threat Initiative; START; weapons of mass destruction

Nunn, Sam

Nurgaliev, Rashid

Obama, Barack

open letter from MG to Putin and

Obshchaya Gazeta

Occupy Wall Street movement

Ogata, Sadako

Ohio

oil prices

Okudzhava, Bulat

oligarchs

courts being bought by

dominance of

relationship between government and

Omsk

Political Education Club

Operation Successor

Orenburg Province

OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)

Charter of Paris for a New Europe (1990)

Ostroumov, Georgiy

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Our Home is Russia Party

Owen, David, Lord

Paderborn

Pakistan

see also Bhutto; Lahore

Palazhchenko, Pavel

Palme, Olof

Panikin, Alexander

Pankin, Alexey

Panorama (Italian weekly)

Panteley see Gopkalo

Parfenov, Leonid

Paris

MG and RG on Seine boat trip

see also Charter of Paris

Party of Social Democracy

Passau

path of democracy

danger that Russia might turn aside from

example to all countries following

more straightforward

Patrushev, Nikolai

Pavlov, Valentin

Pavlovsky, Gleb

Peace with Water conference (Brussels 2009)

pensions

arrears of

backlog of

increased

meagre

millions of people not paid for months

minimum level of

monetization and

non-payment of

restricting money supply by failing to pay

Peres, Shimon

Perestroika

abandonment of

achievements of

assessment of

beginning of

twentieth anniversary of

blamed for hours of queuing and empty shelves

businesses started during

China-USSR relations and

crucial legacy of

defending

disruption of

exhibition of

foreign policy of

free thinking during

furious resistance to

humane character of

ideals of

impact of

intelligentsia reaction during

interrupted

motto of

new setback for growth of democracy initiated by

newspaper edited by longstanding opponent of

not seen through

offspring of

one of the main lessons of

opposition to

philosophy of

problems for

real channel of communication for

reflecting on the experience of

Russo-Japanese relations and

slight directed at

Thatcher’s support for

victory of

vilification of

see also Understanding Perestroika (MG)

Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo

Perot, Ross

Perry, William

Pershin, Andrey

Petersburg-Channel

Petersburg cronies approach

Petersburg Dialogue

Petrakov, Nikolai

Petukhov, Vladimir

Philadelphia

Philippines

Pillor, Mark

Pipes, Richard

Poland

admission to EU

documents about shooting of prisoners of war

letter from MG to Marshal and deputies of the Sejm

Obama against deploying anti-ballistic missile systems in

see also Jaruzelski; Katyn; Kulczyk; Rakowski

Politburo

documents about shooting of Polish prisoners of war

Top Secret minutes of meetings

pollution

citizens protesting about

dire in many Chinese cities

see also greenhouse gas emissions

Poltoranin, Mikhail

Poptsov, Oleg

Portugal

see also Soares

Potanin, Vladimir

poverty

attacking

eradication of

extreme

fighting

huge numbers plunged into

majority are living in

mass

millions lifted out of

most vulnerable sections of population condemned to

overcoming

people humiliated by

reducing the glaring gaps between wealth and

substantial increase in risk of

vast majority sink into

widespread

see also poverty line; poverty threshold; problem of poverty

poverty line

population below

two-thirds of Russian people living on

poverty threshold

population sliding towards

reviewed and raised

Powell, Colin

Pozner, Vladimir

Prague Spring (1968)

Presidential Messenger (Interfax)