Last Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Laid To Rest In Moscow

 

Daily Mail: A final embrace for her father: Daughter of Mikhail Gorbachev bids farewell as last Soviet leader is laid to rest at a funeral in Moscow as thousands of Russians queue to pay their respects clutching red roses 

* Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian President could not come due to work schedule 

* Dignitaries pictured arriving included Hungarian President Viktor Orban and US ambassador John Sullivan 

* Despite huge outpouring of tributes from West after Gorbachev's death, reaction much more muted in Russia 

* Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, who was in power between 1985 and 1991, triggered the demise of the Soviet Union 

The daughter of the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has bid her final farewell to her father as he was laid to rest after a funeral service attended by thousands of Russians who lined the streets to pay their respects.

Irina Virganskaya was pictured embracing her father before the former leader was buried at Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife Raisa. 

The burial followed a farewell ceremony at the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions, an opulent 18th-century mansion near the Kremlin that has served as the venue for state funerals since Soviet times in a service that was snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.  

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WNU Editor: Gorbachev represents a time of hardships and suffering that most Russians want to forget. I am not surprised that there was no state funeral. 

Last Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Laid To Rest In Moscow  

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Russians say farewell to USSR’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev in funeral snubbed by Putin -- CNN  

Mikhail Gorbachev funeral draws thousands in Moscow -- DW  

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Gorbachev laid to rest with honors in Moscow’s Novodevichye Cemetery -- TASS 

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