President of the USSR, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. File photoBUENOS AIRES, Aug 31 The Argentine Foreign Ministry expressed condolences on the death of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, calling him «a symbol of the end of the Cold War.» Mikhail Gorbachev, the (man-winner) of the Nobel Peace Prize and a symbol of the end of the Cold War,” the ministry said in a statement. The first and last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, died on August 30 after a serious and prolonged illness, he was 91 years old. In 1990, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the peace process between the Soviet Union and Western countries. Column Hall of the House of the Unions
