Russia S Putin Pays Tribute To Gorbachev But Won T Attend Funeral Political News
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union the full state honors accorded former President Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev, idolized in the West for enabling Eastern Europe to escape Soviet communist control but unloved at home for the chaos unleashed by his “perestroika” reforms, will be buried on Saturday after a public ceremony in the Hall of Columns of Moscow....