Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who has died at the age of 91, made a ‘huge impact’ on world history.
“Mikhail Gorbachev was a politician and statesman who had a huge impact on the course of world history,” Putin said in a statement from the Kremlin, expressing his “deepest condolences” to Gorbachev’s friends and family.
“He led our country during a period of complex, dramatic changes, large-scale foreign policy, economic and social challenges,” Putin added.
“He deeply understood that reforms were necessary, he strove to offer his own solutions to urgent problems,” he said.
AFP
