STORY: Hundreds of people flocked to the House of Trade Unions in Moscow on Saturday to say goodbye to the last head of state of the Soviet Union, Michael Gorbachev. People took another look at Gorbchev’s corpse, and some laid flowers. The heads of all former Soviet heads of state and Russian President Boris Yeltsin were publicly displayed in the same place. Gorbachev, who is considered one of the fathers of German unity and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, was old on Tuesday after a long, serious illness died at the age of 91. The former head of state and party leader is to be buried next to his wife Raissa in Moscow’s celebrity cemetery at the Novodevichy Convent early on Saturday afternoon. A state funeral was not planned. Furthermore, no leading European politicians are expected. The background is the Western sanctions against Moscow because of the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin will also not attend the funeral. His spokesman Dmitri Peskow justified this with scheduling problems. Gorbachev had repeatedly criticized Putin’s policy of restricting civil liberties in Russia in the past.
Source: Stern
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