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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died, Russian media report

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died, Russian media report.

Mr Gorbachev, 92, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, is understood to have died in hospital.

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