Mikhail Gorbachev Cause Of Death

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War and was the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, Russian news agencies reported. He died at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow on 30 August 2022.

What was Mikhail Gorbachev cause of death? “Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said late on Tuesday [Aug.31], as quoted by the Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies.

Gorbachev will be buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999, state-owned TASS reported, citing a source familiar with the family’s wishes.

Gorbachev served as the last leader of the Soviet Union and as the country’s head of state from 1988 to 1991, he served as;

• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989,
• Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990,
• General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, and
• President of the Soviet Union from 1990 until the country’s dissolution in 1991.

Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War, but many in Russia see him as responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the social and economic crises that enveloped the country in the early 1990s.