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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Andrew Buncombe

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War and changed the world forever, dies aged 91

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Mikhail Gorbachev, a man widely lauded in the West for reforms that changed the world but were often condemned at home, has died at the age of 91.

Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital said the last leader of the Soviet Union had died after a long illness but provided no other details.

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