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Mikhail Gorbachev: Former Soviet leader has died - reports: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91, according to Russia's Interfax news ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev: Former Soviet leader has died - reports
Quick Glance: Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's first and only president, died at the age of 91.
  • Gorbachev did not pretend that his country did not require transformation.

  • Ten Soviet republics would declare freedom by the end of 1991.

  • "If we want democracy and reforms," Gorbachev said Yeltsin in 1991, "we must act according to democratic rules."

  • In the years thereafter, Gorbachev has tried to give his version of what happened at the fall of the Soviet Union.