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8263980 01.06.1988 On this June 1, 1988 file photo Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev meets with representatives of international public organizations who arrived in Moscow on the occasion of a Soviet-American summit 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. Yuriy Somov / Sputnik (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Yuriy Somov)