in the studio to discuss all that are bronwen maddox, director and chief executive of chatham house, an independent organisation, which under its royal charter exists to advance the sciences of international politics, economics, and jurisprudence . the charter dates from 1926, bronwen maddox from last month; but her appointment is the culmination of a distinguished career reporting the world. michael goldfarb has been a foreign correspondent for npr, national public radio, in the united states. his podcast is the first rough draft of history. stefanie bolzen is uk and ireland correspondent for the german media group, die welt, including for its newspaper of the same name a paper established in hamburg by the british army of occupation, one month after winston churchill delivered his speech warning that an iron curtain was descending and dividing europe. talk about unfinished business! bronwyn, let s begin with that unfinished business of the new prime minister. we will
shipment of grain to africa since the ukraine conflict began has arrived in the republic of djibouti. and meghan markle tells a us magazine that she upset the dynamics of britain s royal hierarchy, just by existing. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he made it his mission to push for perestroika political and economic reforms to kick start the russian economy, and set the goal for glasnost more openness and transparency in the policies of the state and judicial system. he oversaw enormous changes, namely the break up of the soviet union in 1991, and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin, who had a sharply divergent view of how things should be done, has expressed his deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at an historic life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was
from the west but he allowed something enormous to happen and it had an enormous effect on modern europe, as we can call it now, and a critical effect on russia. at the west did not understand how big a moment and how big the change would be for russia itself. so we had the mess and the autocracy of the boris yeltsin years. one of the interesting things, i don t think anyone was prepared, certainly gorbachev wasn t. he was prepared to let the warsaw pact lives. i don t think it was important to him, the economy in russia needed attention. i say russia, i do mean in the soviet union, because he was a man of the soviet union. but the post gorbachev,
from the west but he allowed something enormous to happen and it had an enormous effect on modern europe, as we can call it now, and a critical effect on russia. at the west did not understand how big a moment and how big the change would be for russia itself. so we had the mess and the autocracy of the boris yeltsin years. one of the interesting things, i don t think anyone was prepared, certainly gorbachev wasn t. he was prepared to let the warsaw pact lives. i don t think it was important to him, the economy in russia needed attention. i say russia, i do mean in the soviet union, because he was a man of the soviet union. but the post gorbachev, which happened very quickly, he didn t expect to be the victim of a coup when he went
significance, that he allowed, maybe not with joy, but allowed the dissolution of the soviet union and those countries to go away, more or less peacefully. i know the whole project and the reforms he wanted did not happen, and it ended with much disillusionment on his part, and a lack of support, as he saw it, from the west but he allowed something enormous to happen and it had an enormous effect on modern europe, as we can call it now, and a critical effect on russia. but the west did not understand how big a moment and how big the change would be for russia itself. so we had the mess and the autocracy of the yeltsin years. one of the interesting things, i don t think anyone was prepared, certainly gorbachev wasn t.