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8264005 01.11.1985 On this November 1, 1985 file photo USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. 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)