Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin said Thursday
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said"Putin's work schedule will not allow him to take part in the farewell ceremony for Gorbachev on September 3," adding that the Russian President visited the Central Clinical Hospital today to pay his respects to Gorbachev, laying flowers by the coffin.A farewell ceremony for Gorbachev, which will be open to the public, is due to take place on Saturday, followed by the funeral later on the same day at Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.
And while Gorbachev himself did not comment on Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, his foundation called for peace negotiations, saying"there is nothing more precious in the world than human lives."Opinion: Without Mikhail Gorbachev, our world would be very different Only a handful of modern Russian leaders were not granted state funerals.
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