Gorbachev returns to the world stage - as columnist

Fifteen years after he stood down as the last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev is to return to the international arena as a journalist. The 75-year-old statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner will write a monthly column that will be reprinted in newspapers around the world. His first article will appear later this month under the terms of a deal he has struck with The New York Times Syndicate. Since leaving public office, Gorbachev has created a Moscow-based think tank, the Gorbachev Foundation, which promotes study and debate on international issues such as globalisation, climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and poverty. The former Communist leader is likely to take up those issues in his columns. Gorbachev first showed a public interest in journalism in 1993 when he used some of his 1990 Nobel award to help set up a bi-weekly investigative newspaper called Novaya Gazeta, the publication that employed Anna Politkovskaya, the reporter who was murdered last October. Last year Gorbachev purchased a 49 per cent stake in Novaya Gazeta.
See my post “Gorbachev buys stake in Russian newspaper”

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