Soviet leader Gorbachev died

China News Agency, Moscow, August 30th (Reporter Tian Bing) The Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Federal Presidential Affairs released a news on the evening of the 30th that the last leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev died at the age of 91.

The Russian media quoted the hospital reported that "tonight, Mihail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died due to a long -term serious illness."

Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in the Village of Prielinoye, the Stakeropol Border Area. He graduated from the Law Department of the National University of Moscow in 1955. From 1970 to 1978, he served as the first secretary of the Starropo Border Border Committee of the CPPC. From 1971 to 1991, he served as a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and a member of the Political Bureau of the CPSU from 1980 to 1991. In 1985, he served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the chairman of the Soviet National Defense Commission. In 1988, he was elected chairman of the Soviet Supreme Soviet Presidium. In 1989, he was elected as the Soviet Supreme Soviet Chairman at the first Soviet People's Congress. On March 14, 1990, he was elected as Soviet President at the Third (Very) People's Congress of the Soviet Union, becoming the only Soviet president in history. On August 24, 1991, Gorbachev resigned from the position of General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev announced his resignation of the President of the Soviet Union. Since then, Gorbachev has established the "International Social Economic and Political Science Research Foundation" (that is, the "Gorbachev Foundation") and has been the chairman of the foundation. (Finish)

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