Mikhail Gorbachev. File photoUN, 31 Aug UN General Assembly President Abdullah Shahid said he mourns the death of Mikhail Gorbachev.» Saddened by the news of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1990) , who embarked on the path of radical reforms, which also led to the end of the Cold War without bloodshed, «his statement says. The first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, died at the age of 92 on Tuesday evening after a serious and prolonged illness.
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