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Gorbachev is credited with helping to end the nuclear arms race between Russia and America, but he also oversaw the break-up of the former Soviet Union

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Russian news agencies report death of last leader of Soviet Union at Central clinical hospital in Moscow

Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalise the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91.

He oversaw bold reforms and later the collapse of the USSR.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

Former Russian president and the Soviet Union's last ever leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died - the political heavyweight ended the Cold War but failed to prevent the collapse of the USSR

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Vadim Bakatin, a liberal politician who briefly headed the Soviet KGB in the months leading up to the collapse of the USSR, has died at the age of 84, Russian state media said on Monday.