Gorbachev apparently has been bought by Putin. And of course the NY Times is more than happy to give him a forum.
JUNE 1992 : (RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL : MAURICE STRONG ORGANIZES THE 'EARTH SUMMIT' ; SIMULTANEOUSLY, BACK IN COSTA RICA, THE MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES WAS FILING CHARGES AGAINST HIM AND HIS PARTNER JULIO GARCIA IN THE COMPANY 'DESAROLLOS ECOLOGICOS S A' FOR BUILDING A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR HOTEL ON LAND BELONGING TO THE KEKOLDI INDIANS AND LAND BELONGING TO THE GANDOCA-MANZANILLO WILDLIFE REFUGE - WITHOUT PERMITS OF COURSE) Incredibly, while [Maurice] Strong was organizing the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June of 1992, in the same month of the same year, Costa Rica’s Ministry of Natural Resources were filing charges against Strong and his partner in Desarollos Ecologicos S.A., Julio Garcia for building the $35 million Villas del Caribe condo hotel on land located in the Kekoldi Indian Reservation and Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge–without official permits. Strong’s son ran the luxury hotel.------- "Entity behind Kyoto conned public," by Judi McLeod & David Hawkins, CFP, canada free pressApril 21, 2005
1992 : (RIO CONFERENCE) The GEF, spawned by the 1992 Rio conference (which Strong chaired) is a joint effort of UNEP (which Strong founded) and the World Bank (where Strong was appointed in 1995 as a senior adviser to the president) and the UNDP (run from 1999-2005 by Strong’s former World Bank colleague, Mark Malloch Brown, and from 2005 to the present by another of Strong’s former World Bank colleagues, Kemal Dervis). --At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong , FOX NEWS
1993 : (PARLIAMENT OF WORLD RELIGIONS : "RELIGIOUS LEADERS" ADOPT THE DECLARATION "TOWARDS THE GLOBAL ETHIC" - See also CATHOLIC DISSIDENT HANS KUNG AND HIS "GLOBAL ETHICS PROJECT," FORMER SOVIET PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, AND CANADIAN 'ENVIROMENTALIST' MAURICE STRONG (see OIL FOR FOOD SCANDALS)) [Catholic dissident Hans] Küng [the progenitor of the UN Earth Charter] first pushed his notion of a global ethic at the United Nations in 1991 and then at the Parliament of World Religions in 1993. There the gathered religious leaders adopted the declaration "Towards a Global Ethic" which became a rallying cry both in UN documents and gatherings of international leaders culminating in the formation of the Earth Charter by former Russian [Soviet] President Mikhail Gorbachev and Canadian-born UN environmentalist guru Maurice Strong. The founding documents of the Earth Charter credit Küng's global ethics with its underpinning.... the global ethics document [adopted at the Parliament of World Religions in 1993] is amorphous and open-ended...---------- "A Warning Against False World Religion Seen in Pope's Meeting with Hans Kung," by John-Henry Westen, LifeSite, September 28, 2005