Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev is hospitalized, where he is on dialysis. The news was spread by economist Ruslan Grinberg, scientific director of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who visited him. Gorbachev, the he is 91 years oldand contrary to what happened in 2014, he did not comment on the war in Ukraine that started on February 24 this year, suffer from diabetes and kidney problems, added the manager, quoted by Gazeta.ru. A picture of Gorbachev in his hospital bed with Grinberg next to him was also released.
Gorbachev was the last President of the Soviet Union. It was he who initiated a series of economic and social reforms that led to a progressive opening of the USSR to the West and, in parallel, to the dissolution of the Soviet communist empire. His decisions were summarized under the terms glasnost (transparency, liberalization) and perestroika (reconstruction). In 1990 he was awarded the for his work Nobel Peace Prize.