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Western leaders have paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, who died on Tuesday in Russia at the age of 91. France’s Emmanuel Macron hailed a "man of peace whose choices have opened a path of freedom for Russians”.

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91.Mr Gorbachev is best known for opening up the USSR and for bringing the Cold War to a peaceful end, but he was unable to prevent his country collapsing in 1991.News organisations quoted a statement from Russia's Central Clinical…

Mr Gorbachev’s death at the age of 91 inspired an outpouring of tributes from world leaders

The papers on Wednesday focus on the cost-of-living crisis and the death of Mikhail Gorbachev.

World leaders were quick to pay tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who oversaw the collapse of the USSR and lifted the Iron Curtain, marking a pivotal turning point in world history. Gorbachev died at a hospital in Moscow on Tuesday aged 91.

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In today’s newsletter: titanic figure of the 20th century, who had a key role in the end of the cold war, has died aged 91

The lifelong communist took the reins at a tense time in the Cold War but eventually presided over the demise of the Soviet Union.

Towering figure of 20th century history dies in Moscow hospital after ‘serious and long illness’

German chief of defence says Russia ‘capable of expanding the conflict regionally’ with ‘second theatre of war’