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Eastern bloc. gorbachev understood that he did more than most leaders in rows to the brutal soviet system and with coverage confronted the contradictions and failures. >> mr. gorbachev down this wall. steve: he did turn down the wall. east gently hungry in poland they refused to send in the tanks previous leaders had done in the iron curtain fell. he did something almost unheard of and give up power instead of hoarding it dismantling the system and was a truly great man. unlike vladimir putin wh...

From the west but he allowed something enormous to happen and it had an enormous effect on modern europe, as we can call it now, and a critical effect on russia. at the west did not understand how big a moment and how big the change would be for russia itself. so we had the mess and the autocracy of the boris yeltsin years. one of the interesting things, i dont think anyone was prepared, certainly gorbachev wasnt. he was prepared to let the warsaw pact lives. i dont think it was important to him...

As mr gorbachev�*s coffin was carried from the building, a final round of applause before his finaljourney. most soviet leaders were buried in red square but, for the last leader of the soviet union, his final resting place is this moscow cemetery. mikhail gorbachev�*s wish was to be buried beside his wife, raisa. he loved power, but he loved her more. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. an estimated 70,000 people have been taking part in anti—government demonstrations in the czech capital ...

Hall of columns. he died this week at age 91. gorbachev did not receive state honors and russian president vladimir putin did not attend saying he was working. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news" one year after the u.s. withdrawal we speak to an afghan interpreter left behind. later, world-class goodbye. serena williams final at the u.s. open.

The end of an era. we hear that phrase so often, dont we? its meaning has almost been diluted. but the death of mikhail gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history. a rare period when russia was opening up to the world, when people here were being given freedoms and when east and west pledged to live together in peace. as mr gorbachev�*s coffin was carried from the building, a final round of applause before his finaljourney. most soviet leaders were buried in red squa...

MOSCOW—Thousands of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic ...

Of their superpower, but out on the streets, muscovites young and old were queueing up to pay their respects. gorbachev had given many here their first taste of freedom and democracy. in todays russia, both those things are under attack. these people who came to gorbachev to thank him, to say "thank you, mr gorbachev. "you gave us a chance and we lost this chance." "the end of an era" — we hear that phrase so often, dont we? its meaning has almost been diluted. but the death of mikhail gorbach...

Commentary The death of Mikhail Gorbachev last week unleashed a wave of nostalgia for simpler and better times. ...

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I mean, overthe time i was there at the bbc, they accrued 85 million downloads. so i think what i created at the bbc was successful and has enabled us to launch what were doing here on the news agents. and just quickly, youre sitting here, you were just explaining before we came on air, you arejust signing off your second episode. give us a 30 second spin through a day producing a news podcast like the news agents. how does it work? well, its 2a hours. so we were, obviously, with the announcemen...