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dominating the argument. welcome to bbc news. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he oversaw economic reforms known as perestroika, and political ones known as glasnost or openness, which led to the break—up of the soviet union in 1991, and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin has expressed "deep sympathies". our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at a historic life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop—star...

Particularly around nato, can you describe what he was talking about? gorbachev did not like the fact that nato enlarged, in 2015 he said he did not make any agreement with nato regarding it, he said the issue didn't come up... but auain, issue didn't come up... but again. i— issue didn't come up... but again, i think _ issue didn't come up... but again, i think gorbachev was prepared to look beyond the old stereotypes of the cold war. for example, arms control, a real cycle of soviet and us nuclear reductions which substantially reduced the nuclear arsenals. substantially reduced the nuclea...