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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be laid to rest Saturday in a Moscow ceremony, but without the fanfare of a state funeral and with the glaring absence of President Vladimir Putin. With Russia isolated by its military campaign in Ukraine, no foreign leaders are expected to attend what will be a relatively low-key affair to remember one of the great political figures of the 20th century. Gorbachev — affectionately […]
by Paul HANDLEY Agence France Presse Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 — a bit of unaccustomed political showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan. Ana Maria Guzman was in the park on her lunch break that May when she saw the Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday at 91. “We knew he was in town and we saw his motorcade. Then he […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.,,expressed the Filipino people’s condolences to the Russian people over the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who died on Tuesday, August 30, at the age of 91. “I share the grief of other world leaders over the death of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union,” Marcos Jr., said in a statement issued by Malacanang on Wednesday, August 31. The […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday praised former US president George H.W. Bush for his role in ending the Cold War, calling him a “true partner”. Gorbachev, 87, expressed his “deep condolences” to the family of the 41st US president and the entire American nation. Bush died at age 94 on Friday, his family has announced. The two men famously declared an end to the Cold War at the […]
