Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

He will be remembered as the father of 'perestroika' but also for presiding over the fall of the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only president of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, in Moscow.

His death was reported on Tuesday night by the Central Clinical Hospital, which said in a statement that "Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and pr