Politician who helped bring about the end of the cold war dies at the age of 92
Tom Tugendhat, chair of the foreign affairs committee in the UK, has tweeted:
When pro-democracy protests swept across the Soviet bloc nations of communist Eastern Europe in 1989, Gorbachev refrained from using force unlike previous Kremlin leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, Reuters reports.
