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The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be able to attend the funeral service of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who died earlier this week, because of his work schedule.

Gorbachev’s funeral ceremony will be held on Saturday in Moscow.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be able to attend the funeral service of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who died ea

Kyiv, Ukraine - Mikhail Gorbachev could have been celebrated for involuntarily opening a path toward Ukraine's independence, but his support for Crim

The late Mikhail Gorbachev is praised in the West for helping to end the Cold War and a bipolar world in which Soviet-allied African c

Natwar Singh, India's former external affairs minister, remembers the leader who tried, unsuccessfully, to salvage the USSR, a country that was already in decline due to the policies of his predecessors.

Well, i think it shows that vladimir putins kremlin has little desire to be closely associated with the ideas, the policies that mikhail gorbachev espoused. putin and gorbachev are two leaders who changed their countries, but in very different ways. mikhail gorbachev, by opening up the soviet union. by giving people more freedoms. by talking about democratisation. vladimir putin by closing down. russia by closing down shutting down democratic institutions. cracking down on dissent. the other thi...

Praising mr gorbachev. and veiled criticism from the kremlin — a spokesperson says that gorbachev had been badly wrong about the prospect of better relations with the bloodthirsty west. many russians blame mikhail gorbachev for the collapse of the soviet empire — something president putin calls the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. today, vladimir putin sent a telegram to mikhail gorbachev�*s family expressing his condolences. but these two leaders are polar opposites....

Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the driving forces behind the end of the Cold War in 1989/90. Without his policies of openness, measures then taken to curb nuclear weapons would have proved beyond reach and the Berlin Wall would not have fallen.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed condolences over the demise of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and recalled his contribution to strengthening relations with India.