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Tensions between the United States and Russia have brought the world to the brink of a new cold war, warned former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. "Some are even saying that it's already begun," he said, speaking at an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

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