Putin snubs Gorbachev's funeral, pays tribute to his 'huge impact'
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday, citing scheduling conflicts, but he paid tribute to the last Soviet leader Thursday, the Kremlin said.
Vladimir Putin laid a red bouquet at the open coffin of Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday, but he won’t attend his funeral on Saturday.Putin is seen bowing his head before Gorbachev’s body at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow.In Wednesday’s telegram of condolences released by the Kremlin, Putin praised Gorbachev as a man who left “an huge impact on the course of world history.”
Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s historical Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife, Raisa, who died in 1999, after a public farewell ceremony at the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions — an iconic mansion near the Kremlin that has served as the venue for state funerals since Soviet times. Yeltsin’s farewell ceremony was attended by dozens of foreign guests and former world leaders, including Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
For his part, Gorbachev in recent years had grown increasingly critical of Putin’s crackdowns on civil liberties in Russia. Although the aging statesman did not personally comment on the situation in Ukraine, his foundation called for peace negotiations between the two sides.
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