Raisa Gorbachev Has Acute Leukemia

Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, is seriously ill with leukemia and “very weakened” by the disease and chemotherapy, German doctors said. Gorbachev was at her side at the clinic in Muenster, where she has been receiving treatment for an acute form of the blood cancer for 10 days, an official said. “Examinations have shown that Mrs. Gorbachev has acute leukemia,” the hospital said in a statement. Doctors did not say how long her hospitalization would last and declined to describe her type of leukemia. Some forms of acute leukemia are increasingly curable with new treatments.