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PETER HITCHENS: I hate to think what would have happened to the endlessly oppressed, repeatedly robbed, stoical, brave Russian people if civil war had come to that country again.
Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered in the US. as the man Reagan challenged but later came to respect, and who left a legacy of freedom.
Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered in the US. as the man Reagan challenged but later came to respect, and who left a legacy of freedom.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: 'President Putin expresses his deep sympathies over the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. In the morning he will send a telegram of condolences to his family and friends.'
Senior Russian journalist Alexei Venediktov said in July that Gorbachev was 'upset' that his reforms which de-isolated Russia from the West have been destroyed by Putin.