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Mikhail Gorbachev

Latest 4 September 2022

Honour or disgrace – how Russia has buried its past leaders

(Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was buried on Saturday in Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery but there was no official day of mourning and it was…

Russia · 2 Sep 2022 Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to… Russia · 1 Sep 2022 UPDATED: Putin will not be attending Gorbachev’s funeral – Kremlin MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, on… Lithuania · 1 Sep 2022 While rest of EU mourns, Baltics recall Gorbachev as agent of repression VILNIUS (Reuters) - Widely praised in the West as a towering statesman who helped end the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered… Russia · 31 Aug 2022 Gorbachev on Gorbachev: the last Soviet leader in his own words (Reuters) - Following are some notable quotes from Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday at the age of… Russia · 31 Aug 2022 West mourns Gorbachev as peace champion, Russia remembers failures Aug 31 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev was mourned in the West on Wednesday as a towering statesman who helped to end the… Russia · 31 Aug 2022 UPDATED: Global reactions to the death of last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Aug 31 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet… Russia · 30 Aug 2022 UPDATED – Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died… Lithuania · 14 Jan 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev accused of war crimes by six Lithuanian citizens Relatives of victims of a 1991 Soviet crackdown against Lithuania's pro-independence government filed a civil lawsuit in Vilnius against former Soviet president… 22 Oct 2018 Gorbachev expresses his criticism to Trump’s decision to withdraw USA from nuclear disarmament treaty President Trump’s announcement that the United States would withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia drew sharp criticism Sunday from one…