Aug 31 (Reuters) - The funeral of the Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday in Moscow aged 91, will take place on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported, citing Gorbachev ...

Just short of his 92nd birthday, the former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, died on 30 August 2022. His career had carried him from the obscurity of a poor, rural childhood to the ...

Gorbachev lay in state in central Moscow Thousands of Russians turned out to see him But Putin, other top officials stayed away Gorbachev buried in famous Moscow cemetery His legacy still divides ...

The funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev poses as big a problem for Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as for the West. Following the 91-year-old's death, dictator Putin paid tribute saying he had a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral because of his "work schedule", the Kremlin has said. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader and one of the most significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liberator, failed reformer or architect of Soviet demise? Bryn Colton/Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; ...

Very few Australians ever got as close to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, as Peter Tesch. Mr Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday, was not an easy person to meet, let alone develop a ...

Russians said farewell to the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday in a funeral that has been snubbed by President Vladimir Putin. A public farewell ceremony for Gorbachev, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalise the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died late ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev but will not attend the late former Soviet leader’s funeral, a decision reflecting the Kremlin’s ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was haunted. Haunted by the history that will not end. He was haunted as was Shakespeare's Hamlet, time was out of joint. His curse, like Hamlet, was to be born to put it right. He ...

Mourners in Moscow are taking turns to get one last glimpse of Mikhail Gorbachev, as they pay their respects and weep over his open casket. The decorated Soviet leader who was credited with bringing ...