Mikhail Gorbachev underwent surgery

Ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev underwent surgery. Now he is in the Central Clinical Hospital, Echo of Moscow reported with reference to a source in the press service of Gorbachev-Fund. According to the ex-president himself, he feels quite normally and in the near future prepares for discharge.

“Yes, they really had an operation in my eyes, now I am in the Central Design Bureau, but, according to doctors and by the way I feel myself, the restoration is going normally,” Gorbachev said on Thursday by phone Interfax . If everything will continue to go in such a good mode, then literally in a few days it will be discharged.

The former Soviet leader also said that, having recovered, this year he would try to go to Germany, where his granddaughter Ksenia, who recently gave birth to a daughter is located. “It so happened that while I saw the great -grandson only in the photograph that I was sent. She is a spilled mother,” Mikhail Sergeyevich shared his news.

Earlier it was reported that the ex-president of the USSR did not go to the meeting of the Nobel laureates to Paris, as he is in the hospital. He was recommended to abolish the trip.

According to ITAR-TASS, Gorbachev sent an appeal to the meeting participants, in which he expressed gratitude for the invitation and informed that the doctors forbade him to go on a trip. The 77-year-old ex-president himself was awarded the Nobel Prize of the World in 1990.