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(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms, including allowing massive numbers of Jews to emigrate to Israel, changed his country and the world, died at 91. Russian media said ...
The last Soviet leader was 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died after a long illness. No other details were given. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a ...
A high-ranking Russian colonel has died, and another is in a critical condition after both fell from tall windows, marking ...
"The Turkish leader offered his condolences over the death of former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and highlighted his influential role in recent Russian and global history," the press ...
The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR.PersonalBirth date: March 2, 1931Death date: August ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet President, takes questions during a press conference before he speaks at special presentation on "Global Leadership of the 1980s: U.S.S.R. & U.S." at the Arizona ...
Gorbachev died on Aug. 30 as the war continued to rage in Ukraine. In 1990, Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching the first nuclear arms reduction treaty and for bringing an end to the ...
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Gorbachev died on August 30, aged 91. Gorbachev occupied the top office for six years. He declared the new course almost immediately after his appointment as Communist Party Secretary General in 1985.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.