Raisa Gorbachev dies following battle with leukaemia

Updated: 21:42, Monday, 20 September 1999

Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of the former Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died after a long battle with leukaemia.

Raisa Gorbachev, 1932 - 1999 Raisa Gorbachev, 1932 - 1999

Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of the former Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died after a long battle with leukaemia. Mrs Gorbachev, who was 67, had been undergoing treatment since July at a clinic in the German city of Munster. Her husband had spent much of that time by her bedside. Doctors had hoped to carry out a bone marrow transplant, but Mrs Gorbachev was too ill to undergo the operation.

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