Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian leader who ended Cold War but failed to prevent Soviet Union’s collapse

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalise the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the
break-up of the state and the end of the Cold War, died last Tuesday
The last Soviet leader was 91.