Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, is undergoing a planned checkup in hospital linked to his battle against diabetes, SIA reports citing Russian press.
"Gorbachev is undergoing a general examination," Gorbachev Foundation spokesman Vladimir Polyakov said.
"Sometimes this happens once a year, and sometimes twice a year," Mr Polyakov said. "There were no special reasons for the hospitalisation."
The 82-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner who became Soviet leader in 1985 instituted the political and economic reforms that became known as glasnost (openness) and perestroika (rebuilding).
The reforms transformed society throughout the Soviet bloc countries, giving people their first taste of Western culture and resulting in an independent press boom across the 15 republics of the former USSR.
Mr Gorbachev served as Soviet leader until 1991, when his reforms gave the Moscow-controlled republics enough strength to declare independence, and for Russia together with Belarus and Ukraine to sign an agreement on the Soviet Union's dissolution.
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