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MOSCOW: Russians paid their final respects to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, in a ceremony held in Moscow yesterday (Sept 3) without much fanfare and with President Vladimir P

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the only president of the Soviet Union, has been buried in the Novodevichye Cemetery, with honor guard members participating in the funeral, a TASS correspondent has reported from the scene. Gorbachev was laid to rest in the family

People a little crazy. and after a while they begin to want the comfort of what was, even if what was was really kind of awful. i think that what happened post gorbachev in russia, was that people gravitated ultimately towards the strong man, the strongman being the guy who was in berlin when he didnt send the tanks in and not even as the head of the kgb, just a junior officer. now he is one of the most important people in the world, a dictator and trying to recreate a cross between tzarism and ...

Sitting here, you werejust explaining before we came on air, you are just 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 announcement of the death of gorbachev yesterday evening, straightaway were thinking about which guests were going to book for the podcast the following day. we already had this interview with gus odonnell lined up. but, you know, its ne...

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 gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history. a rare period when russia was opening up to the worl...

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 square, but for the last leader of the soviet union, his final resting place is this moscow cemetery. mikhail gorbachev�*s...

During that ordeal which, by the way, it lasted for hours. the pilot was charged with grand larceny and making terrorist threats. russians bid farewell to the late soviet leader gorbachev on saturday. gorbachev was then buried without stay honors next to his late wife at a moscow area cemetery he died on tuesday at the age of 91 following a long illness. and serena williams farewell tour has come to an end. the 23-time grand slam champion losing her third round match at the u.s. open on friday n...

Ultimately towards the strong man, the strongman being the guy who was in berlin when he didnt send the tanks in and not even as the head of the kgb, just a junior officer. now he is one of the most important people in the world, a dictator and trying to create a cross between a is an stalinism and that is vladimir putin. and it seems many in russia are ok with that. because the trauma, and i dont know what the west could have done ? in my podcast this week, my guest wrote an article on gorbache...

Dr Lee Duffield records impressions of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the late Russian statesman who changed history. As a news correspondent, he tracked