Tributes paid to politician who helped bring about the end of the cold war
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended cold war, dies aged 91
Micheal Martin, the prime minister of Ireland, has paid tribute.
Gorbachev spent much of the last two decades on the political periphery, intermittently calling for the Kremlin and the White House to mend ties as tensions soared to Cold War levels since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched an offensive in Ukraine earlier this year, AFP reports.
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