China News Agency, Moscow, August 30 (Reporter Tian Bing) The Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Affairs Bureau of the Russian Federation released news on the evening of the 30th that Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Russian media quoted hospital sources as saying, "This evening, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died due to a long-term serious illness."
Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in the village of Prilyvolinoye, Stavropol Krai.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University in 1955.
From 1970 to 1978, he was the first secretary of the Stavropol Krai Committee of the CPSU.
From 1971 to 1991, he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and from 1980 to 1991, he was a member of the Political Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee.
In 1985, he served as general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and chairman of the Soviet Defense Committee. In 1988, he was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1989, he was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR at the first Soviet People's Congress.
On March 14, 1990, he was elected President of the Soviet Union at the Third (Extraordinary) Congress of the People's Congress of the Soviet Union, becoming the only Soviet President in history.
On August 24, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union.
Since then, Gorbachev established the "International Socio-Economic and Political Science Research Foundation" (the "Gorbachev Foundation"), and has been serving as the chairman of the foundation.
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