The Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Presidential Affairs Bureau released news on the night of the 30th local time that the last leader of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, died that night at the age of 91 due to ineffective treatment of long-term serious illness.

  According to the TASS news agency, Gorbachev will be buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, next to the cemetery where his wife Raisa is buried.

(Headquarters reporter Wang Bin)