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Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, dies at 91

His death was announced on Tuesday by Russian news agencies, which said Gorbachev had died at a central hospital in Moscow "after a serious and long illness".

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last surviving Cold War leader who helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze, has died in Moscow at age 91. (Photo by DAVID GANNON / AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

Mikhail Gorbachev, who changed the course of history by triggering the demise of the Soviet Union and was one of the great figures of the 20th century, died in Moscow

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