The last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev kicked the bucket at 91 years old.

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Gorbachev kicked the bucket after a long disease, Russian state news organizations revealed.

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“Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev passed on tonight after an extreme and delayed disease,” the Central Clinical Hospital expressed

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The man credited with presenting key political and monetary changes to the USSR and assisting with finishing the Cold War had been in bombing wellbeing for quite a while.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin communicated his sympathies, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told RIA Novosti.

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Putin will communicate something specific on Wednesday to Gorbachev’s loved ones

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With his active, charismatic nature, Gorbachev thought outside the box for Soviet leaders who up to that point had generally been remote, frigid figures.

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Nearly from the outset of his leadership, he took a stab at huge changes, so the framework would work all the more effectively and all the more equitably. 

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Consequently, the two vital expressions of the Gorbachev period: are “glasnost” (transparency) and “perestroika” (rebuilding).

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