Major events in the life and career of Mikhail Gorbachev

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)