(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 31 - "Mikhail Gorbachev has marked the recent history of Russia, Europe, the world. After a life in the Communist Party, he put an end to the experience of the Soviet Union with courage and determination and tried to build a new a season of transparency, rights, freedom.
His desire for peace, his opposition to an imperialist vision of Russia earned him the Nobel Prize. These are very timely messages in the face of the tragedy of the invasion of Ukraine ".
This was declared by Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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