China News Service, August 31. According to the TASS news agency citing news from the Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Presidential Affairs Bureau on the 30th, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died of illness that day at the age of 91.
According to reports, Gorbachev will be buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, next to the grave of his wife Raisa.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed deep condolences over the death of Gorbachev on the 31st local time, and will send a message of condolence to his relatives and friends on the morning of the 31st, according to TASS news agency citing Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov.
Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, and served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU since March 1985.
From May 1989 to March 1990, he served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
After March 1990, he was the first and last president of the Soviet Union.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Gorbachev was mainly engaged in social and literary activities.