(ANSA) - ROMA, 03 SET - epa10156338 Employees transfer the
coffin with the remains of the late former Soviet president
Mikhail Gorbachev for a farewell ceremony to the Hall of Columns
of the House of Trade Unions in Moscow, Russia, 03 September
2022. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev died on 30 August
2022 at the age of 91 in Moscow Central Clinical Hospital.
Gorbachev initiated numerous reforms during his tenure. He
signed a nuclear arms treaty with the United States and withdrew
the Soviet Union from the Soviet-Afghan war. His policies
created freedom of speech and press, and decentralized fiscal
policy planning and execution to increase efficiency. Gorbachev
was the last leader of the Soviet Union, overseeing Russia
transition from one party rule to a fragile democracy.
EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV (ANSA).