29/06/2012 11:18
M.Gorbachev to receive German award
A new German award will be given to the first Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as recognition of his historical role, the sources say.
The award is instituted by the Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker Foundation and Society named after famous German physicist and philosopher, one of the members of the Nazi scientific team that worked on nuclear weapons but later became a renowned anti-nuclear and anti-war activist and thinker.