Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the first and last president of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 after a long illness. With reference to the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, it is written by the Russian Information Agency RIA Novosti.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Russian and Soviet communist politician. Since 1985 he served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and thus also became the leader of the Soviet Union socialist republic. In 1990, he assumed the newly created position of President of the Soviet Union, and so until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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He became famous for promoting reconstruction policies, sometimes referred to as perestroika, and glasnost, namely change and openness, which should have led to a better functioning of the Soviet system, a certain democratization, and the end of the Cold War.

The changes he pushed ultimately led to the end of the rule of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the year. 1991.

In foreign policy, Gorbachev fostered warmer relations and trade with the developed countries of the West and the East from the start. In December 1987, he signed an agreement with US President Ronald Reagan that the two countries would destroy all existing stockpiles of intermediate-range nuclear-tipped missiles. In 1988-89, he oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan after their nine-year occupation of the country.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1990 and was awarded the Ronald Reagan Freedom Prize in 1992.

After retiring from politics established Gorbachev . Foundation and International Green Crosswhere he is one of the three main sponsors Earth Charter. He is also a member Roma Club. In 1996, he tried to run again in the election, but received only 1 percent of the vote.

In the 1990s, he was involved in international lecture activities, maintained contact with world leaders and remains a hero to many non-Russian citizens who received many awards and honors. In 1999, he suffered a personal blow when his wife Raisa died of leukemia.