Mikhei Gorbachev News Today

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An investor—youre an owner. we got this, babe. that means that your dreams are ours too. and our financial planning tools can help you reach them. thats the value of ownership. gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the collapse of the soviet union was laid to rest today. putin was not there. he paid his respects thursday, but was a no show for the public service at the house of unions. >> reporter: what you can see here is that this is obviously a very solemn ceremony. were in the house of union...

View as a demonstration and they try to break it up, but here, they had to allow thousands of people, peacefully, quietly, many of them weeping, to come and pay their final respects. it was a tribute to gorbachev, but it was also a demonstration against putin. >> and putin is called the break up of the soviet union the greatest geopolitical disaster of the century. what do you think gorbachev would make of how russia is being governed by putin today? >> i think he would be appalled. hed be disgu...

Cemetery here in moscow. laid to rest next to his wife whom he loved very much until she passed away in 1999. >> all right, fred. thank you. as you just heard fred talking about there, gorbachev is seen as a hero to many in the west, but was a divisive figure in his own country. some russians praising him for opening up russias economy. others resenting him for the soviet unions collapse. for more on his complex legacy, were going to turn now to political scientist and author of gorbachev, his l...

So soviet comisars. stalin got rid of tens of millions of innocent people. other leaders didnt hesitate to use force and violence. this is what i mean by an indecent history. and along comes gorbachev. a man who wants to demock ratize russia. who wants to reduce force and violence, if not eliminate it. both within the soviet union and around the world. it was a bad fit, one might say. he accomplished a lot for a while, but then things began to fall apart. i just might mention one of the things t...

Russia saying farewell to the last leader of the soviet union as gorbachev was laid to rest in moscow. next, a look at his life and legacy with the man who wrote the book on gorbachev. youre in the "cnn newsroom." per person. so, ive asked my wife and plan member, to back me up. youre not my wife.. no, i just stand in for her on set during the boring stuff. the boring stuff? are you kidding, im announcing a family plan where just two lines gets everyone the $15 price. im literally revolutionizin...

Many ordinary russians, to pay their final rmespects to mikhei gorbachev. one of the people notably missing is putin. the kremlin saying he has a very busy schedule and therefore no time to be able to come here to this ceremony. that really is a reflection of not only the way the russian president and government views gorbachev and his legacy, but its reflective of a lot of russians. mik mikheil gorbachev bringing unity to europe and freedom to so many eastern european countries. for a lot of ru...

Changed his mind was not the kind of strong leader that many russians wanted. >> right. it is amazing and quite ironic as what we value in leadership so many times. we also know that todays service had the elements of a state funeral but it was not actually a state funeral. like we saw with joseph stalin. we pointed out that president putin wasnt there. what do you make of that messaging of how that came together? >> you know, the thing that strikes me is that this funeral was in a way the last ...