According to a media report, 91-year-old former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has serious kidney problems. “The ex-president of the USSR must go to the blood wash,” said the Russian Telegram channel “Mash”. He has been under constant care of doctors for a year. Kidney disease has not yet been officially confirmed.
Gorbachev became Secretary General of the CPSU in 1985, making him a quasi-Soviet head of state. In 1990, he was formally elected as the first and only president of the Soviet Union.
During his tenure, he tried to reform the country with “perestroika” (transformation) and “glasnost” (openness), but eventually the Soviet Union fell apart.
At the beginning of the year, several Lithuanians filed charges against Gorbachev for failing to stop Soviet troops from crushing the Lithuanian independence movement more than 30 years ago.
On January 13, 1991, 14 civilians were killed and 700 injured in clashes in Vilnius between protesters and the Soviet army. The lawsuit was filed by relatives of the dead.
Source: Krone
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