MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the ... The last Soviet leader was 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died after a long illness.

Gorbachev died at the Central Clinical Hospital on August 30. He was 91. "Mikhail Sergeyevich will be buried, as he willed, next to his spouse Raisa at the Novo-Dyevitchiye cemetery," the source said.

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