Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who helped to end the Cold War, has died at the age of 91.
According to Russian news agencies, Gorbachev died at the Central Clinical Hospital on Tuesday.
The late Soviet leader is renowned for bringing the Cold War to an end without bloodshed.
The Cold War, which lasted from 1947 to 1991, was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies.
According to the Russian news agency, he will be buried beside his wife at Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
