World leaders pay tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who died in Moscow aged 91
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his"deep sympathies" over the loss of Mikhail Gorbachev while US President Joe Biden hailed the former Soviet president as a"rare leader" who made the world safer.World leaders have paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who died in Moscow aged 91.
Peskov added that Putin would send a telegram of condolences to the late leader's family and friends on Wednesday."These were the acts of a rare leader – one with the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career to achieve it," Biden said. "His desire for peace, his opposition to an imperialist vision of Russia won him the Nobel prize," Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said.
His "crucial role" in bringing down the Iron Curtain and ending the Cold War left a legacy "we will not forget", she tweeted.NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Gorbachev's "vision of a better world remains an example" and paid tribute to his "historic reforms... opened the possibility of a partnership between Russia and NATO".Beijing paid tribute to Gorbachev for making "positive contributions to the normalisation of Sino-Soviet relations".
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