MOSCOW: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was discharged from a Moscow clinic where he had been admitted for medical tests.

“I am feeling better. That is why doctors agreed that it was possible to allow me to leave the clinic,” Gorbachev, 83, told the Interfax news agency.

“I have been discharged from the hospital and I am now heading to my office,” he said.

A spokeswoman for Gorbachev’s foundation confirmed to AFP that the last leader of the USSR had arrived at their headquarters and that “everything was back to normal.”

Gorbachev — who has been suffering from ailing health — had earlier said he was “alive and well” after undergoing unspecified tests at the clinic for high-ranking officials.