Russians pay their final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, in a ceremony held in Moscow without much fanfare
Nobel Peace Prize journalist Dmitry Muratov carries a portrait of former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev during his funeral at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Several thousand mourners queued up to quietly file past Gorbachev's open casket as it was flanked by honour guards under the Russian flag in the historic Hall of Columns on Saturday. After several hours the coffin was taken out of the hall in a procession led by Dmitry Muratov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning editor-in-chief of independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which Gorbachev helped found.
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