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Major events in the life and career of Mikhail Gorbachev

FILE - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stands with daughter Irina and granddaughter Krenia, foreground third right, as they grieve before the coffin with Raisa Gorbachev's body at Russia's Culture Fund in Moscow on Sept. 22, 1999. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File) FILE - Former Soviet President and Russia's presidential candidate Mikhail Gorbachev gestures as he talks to reporters at a polling station in downtown Moscow, on June 16, 1996. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Oleg Nikishin, File) FILE - U.S. President George H. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev shake hands after signing the START arms reduction treaty in Moscow, on July 31, 1991. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File) FILE - A crowd gathers around a personnel carrier as some people climb aboard the vehicle and try to block its advance near Red Square in downtown Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 19, 1991. The August 1991 coup that briefly ousted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed in just three days, precipitating the breakup of the Soviet Union that plotters said they were trying to prevent. Former Soviet leader Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File) FILE - Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev receives applause from the audience in Oslo as he enters the lecture hall to deliver his long-delayed Nobel Peace lecture, June 5, 1991. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File) FILE - West Berliners release hundreds of balloons with photo of Mikhail S. Gorbachev and a message to the Soviet leader in front of Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin near the wall, Nov. 17, 1989. They wanted to say thank you to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev for pulling down the wall. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File) FILE - East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall which has divided the city since the end of World War II, near the Brandenburger Tor (Branderburg Gate), early Friday morning, Nov. 10, 1989. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File) FILE - Soviet Army soldiers wave their hands as their last detachment crosses a bridge on the border between Afghanistan and then Soviet Uzbekistan near the Uzbek town of Termez, as they leave Afghanistan on Feb. 15, 1989 after waging a 10-year war. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Vitaly Zaporozhchenko, File) FILE - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchange pens during a treaty signing ceremony in the White House East Room in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1987. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File) FILE - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives at Keflavik airport, Friday, Oct. 9, 1986 in Reykjavik, Iceland for several sessions of talks with US President Ronald Reagan on October 11-12. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, shakes hands with U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the Geneva conference in November 1985. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who became the new Soviet leader following the death of President Constantin Chernenko, studies papers in his Kremlin office on May 1985. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)
Major events in the life and career of Mikhail Gorbachev