Thousands of people lined the streets of Moscow to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of his funeral on Saturday — a farewell noticeably missed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
by others at home for precipitating the end of the Soviet empire and the ensuing economic meltdown that plunged millions into poverty.
In a private ceremony on Thursday, Putin laid flowers at Gorbachev’s coffin at the Moscow hospital where Gorbachev had died two days before, but the Kremlin said that hisRussian President Vladimir Putin pays his last respects at the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow.
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