Mikhail Gorbachev in 2002.
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Moscow – Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91, Russia’s Interfax news agency and other state media reported. He is regarded as a reformer of the ruling communist party of the Soviet Union. This led to the end of the Cold War and eventually to the disintegration of the country. But he also made possible the reunification of Germany.