The former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died, aged 91.
"Today in the evening (Tuesday), after a long and serious illness, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev passed away," the Central Clinical Hospital (TSKB) in Moscow said in a statement cited by Russian state-owned news agencies.
Gorbachev’s office said earlier that he was undergoing treatment at the hospital.
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