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Hello, it's 189 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

The former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died.

And under his watch, the Berlin Wall fell, the Cold War came to an end.

The Soviet Union crumbled.

He was responsible for a period of openness, Glasnovst, towards the West.

But in Russia, he is a very divisive figure.

On the one hand, he carried out vital reforms, but they brought poverty.

He brought the Russians' opportunity, but on the other hand, he's criticized for allowing

the Soviet Union to fall apart.

And part of his legacy is captured by this advert from 1997.

It's an advert for Peter Hart.

And it shows Mikhail Gorbachev sitting in the Peter Hart restaurant, apparently Moscow.

And visitors are discussing him.

There's this older gentleman who says that Gorbachev has to blame for the chaos in the economy,

but the young man responds, but he brought us up new opportunities.

Then the old man says, what about political instability?

The young man says freedom.

So this advert is very symbolic of how Mikhail Gorbachev was seen in Russia back then.

Sometimes nothing brings people together like a nice hot pizza from Peter Hart.

And now, also very symbolically, Peter Hart is gone from Russia.

He pulled out of Russia because of the war in Ukraine, a war which President Putin sees

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