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Mikhail gorbachev had let the iron curtain crumble, he had ended the cold war but saw his own country, the soviet union, fall apart. there was a guard of honour but no state funeral — a sign that vladimir putins kremlin has little interest in honouring mr gorbachev�*s legacy. president putin didnt even come today. many russians blame gorbachev for the collapse of their superpower. but out on the streets, muscovites, young and old, were queueing up to pay their respects. gorbachev had given m...

One of the great leaders of the 21st century. one of those who is notably missing is putin. the kremlin saying the russian president will not have time to attend the ceremony because his schedule is to jam packed. thats reflective not just of the way that putin and the russian government see the legacy of gorbachev, but of course also the way many russians view that plegacy. he was celebrated in the west, credited with being pivotal in bringing down the iron curtain in a peaceful why while hundr...

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

Of moscows house of unions, a last farewell to the man who changed the world. mikhail gorbachev had let the iron curtain crumble, he had ended the cold war but saw his own country, the soviet union, fall apart. there was a guard of honour but no state funeral — a sign that vladimir putins kremlin has little interest in honouring mr gorbachev�*s legacy. president putin didnt even come today. many russians blame gorbachev for the collapse of their superpower. but out on the streets, muscovites...

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 gorbachev rea...

Well, i think a lot of people who were young in mr gorbachev�*s heady early days will remember him with enormous affection and incitement because those were days when suddenly everything was changing, —— excitement. but other people, not middle classes are not the intellectuals, but ordinary russians, perhaps dont remember the excitement of that, all they remember is the fact that shelves were completely empty and there was nothing to eat and the communist system wasnt delivering at all an...

You on the programme. thats quite a title to live up to. thanks, ros. yeah, well, its nice to, nice to talk to you. yeah, its look, it was a lovely piece and a shock to have a profile in the times. but, you know, ithink what i did at the bbc in terms of launching brexitcast, which was our first hit podcast, and then americast withjon and emily and then the daily newscast. 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 succ...

Parastroika and glasnos openness, policy reforms that led to the democratic turn of change there in what was the previous soviet union. alicia: and gorbachev definitely had his critics. he was credited for bringing down the wall, which he did not do, and we hear about president putin saying, his office saying there was a scheduling problem for him and therefore, he could not attend this funeral that we were seeing earlier. he is there showing privately, but its of note that he does basically mak...

Scores of mourners streamed into central Moscow on Saturday to bid farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev. Though admired in the West, the late Soviet leader is far less popular in his home country.

PARIS: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who played a major role in ending the Cold War, died in Moscow on Tuesday aged 91.