Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91 after a long period of serious illness, Russian news agencies said on Tuesday, citing hospital officials.
Informally called Gorbi, the Soviet leader launched the so-called perestroika and glasnost, the set of reforms aimed at democratizing the USSR and opening up to the market economy, in addition to rapprochement with the United States and other countries outside the socialist bloc. In 1990, he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Many Russians never forgave Gorbachev for the turmoil his reforms unleashed, considering the subsequent drop in their living standards too high a price to pay for democracy.
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