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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Will Stewart & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Vladimir Putin's Mikhail Gorbachev funeral nightmare as he fears exposing health to west

The funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev poses as big a problem for Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as for the West.

Following the 91-year-old's death, dictator Putin paid tribute saying he had a "huge impact on the course of world history".

The last leader of the Soviet Union was someone who found his "own solutions to urgent problems", Putin said.

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