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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv, his interpreter said on Thursday.

By Andrew Osborn

Gorbachev became an unlikely cultural icon, appearing in Pizza Hut and Louis Vuitton ads and winning a Grammy

Gorbachev’s interpreter for decades says the late Soviet leader was traumatised by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Gorbachev will be given a military guard of honour - but funeral will not be a state one

Estonia will not be sending a representative to the funeral of the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as it has received no invitation.

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PARIS, France - World leaders paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who died Tuesday in Moscow aged 91. A picture shows a portrait of the last leader of the Soviet Union and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev, displayed in his memory in hi

Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Prize for helping end the nuclear arms race while presiding over the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The world mostly knew the last titanic Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev as the man who ended the Cold War, brought down the iron curtain, retrieved the world from the brink of nuclear arms race that could have led to annihilation, and as perhaps the only Communist politician to win the Nobel Peace prize