General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 31Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that Mikhail Gorbachev tried to improve the lives of his people.»I am saddened by the news of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was a man who tried to provide a better life for his people. His life was important because without him and his courage it would not have been possible to end the Cold War peacefully,» she wrote on Twitter. The first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, died at the age of 92 on Tuesday evening after a difficult and a long illness.
