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8263979 25.05.1989 On this May 25, 1989 file photo Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council, speaks during the 1st Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in Moscow, Soviet Union. The ex-president of the USSR has died at the age of 91 after a serious and long illness on the evening of August 30. Yuryi Abramochkin / Sputnik (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Yuryi Abramochkin)