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Vladimir Putin will not attend Mikhail Gorbachev’s funeral, Kremlin says

The Russian president will not attend the service due to ‘schedule constraints,’ the Kremlin said

The Independent UK

Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral and will stay away

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.

Reuters

Editorial: Gorbachev's legacy and Putin's war

"I like Mr. Gorbachev," British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in 1984. "We can do business together."

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Commentary: Mikhail Gorbachev’s failures did not go deep enough

Mikhail Gorbachev failed at everything he tried as the Soviet Union’s last leader. The state he led could only change the world for the better by failing — and it did. But, alas, not for long.

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Clara Ferreira Marques: Putin will turn Gorbachev’s death to his advantage

Mikhail Gorbachev was a man who hoped for the best, and got the worst.

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History's bookends: Putin reversed many Gorbachev reforms

Mikhail Gorbachev stood for freedom, openness, peace and closer ties with the outside world

The Independent UK

Gorbachev and Reagan: A Friendship that Ended the Cold War

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…

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PM Modi condoles Gorbachev's demise, hails his contribution to strengthening India-Russia ties

Former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev died at a hospital in Moscow on Tuesday at the age of 91 after a "serious and prolonged illness"

The Hindu

What happened to young Leon Brown is every parent's worst nightmare

Record View says digital platforms like TikTok - which has enabled stunts like the so-called blackout challenge to spread - must take greater responsibility.

Daily Record

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev loved a good hat – so Australia's main man in Moscow got him an Akubra

In 2017, the centenary of the November Bolshevik revolution landed on Melbourne Cup Day. The Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrated at Australia's embassy in Moscow, James Glenday writes.

ABC News

'Whoever takes over as PM next week will inherit a country in its sick bed'

Preventing the disaster about to descend on Britain requires radical and bold action - that must include using the state to support those in the greatest need

Daily Mirror

Putin, who mourned USSR loss, offers Gorbachev faint praise

Russian President Vladimir Putin famously described the Soviet Union’s collapse as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” On Wednesday, he marked Mikhail Gorbachev’s death with only muted praise for the leader who oversaw the Communist state’s demise.

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Treasurer responds to concerns over unions at Jobs Summit, Cameron Smith defends LIV Golf decision, and will Vladimir Putin attend Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral? — as it happened

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

Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, following his death but the last leader of the Soviet Union's funeral poses issues for the Russia and its president

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The Conversation

Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy: sadly, history will judge this good man harshly

No other person but the final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev – who has died aged 91 – could bring to life the eternal debate on the role of the individual in history. Does real change happen because of impersonal structural factors, or because of individual choice by…

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Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev's competing visions for Russia's future ultimately saw the two men turn on each other

When Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, he had no greater champion than Mikhail Gorbachev. But as Putin slowly transformed Russia into an imperial presidency, the two men turned against each other.

Reuters

Pope Francis praises Gorbachev as far-sighted statesman

Pope Francis on Wednesday praised the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a far-sighted statesman who was committed to improving relations among nations.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Gorbachev’s legacy: the hope endures

Editorial: Russia’s post-Soviet experiment in democracy failed, but the dream of its political freedom must be preserved

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Gorbachev was let down by the west. Putin’s Russia is the result

Letters: With better support from the US and Britain, Russia could have been a very different place today, says Michael Meadowcroft, while Bill Robinson remembers photographing the Thatchers and the Gorbachevs in Moscow

The Independent UK

Gorbachev's funeral, burial will reflect his varied legacy

The funeral and burial plans for Mikhail Gorbachev will sum up the crosscurrents of his legacy

The Conversation

Ukraine war: how Gorbachev's 1987 INF missile treaty has limited the arsenal available to Putin

Thanks to the final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, a disarmament treaty has denied Vladimir Putin thousands more missiles which he could have ordered to be used against Ukraine. Russian forces attacking Ukraine have not been able to use land-based missiles with ranges of between 500km…

The Conversation

Gorbachev remembered: Respected in the West, detested in Russia

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is dead. Given the tributes being paid to him in the West for his efforts to end the Cold War, it might be difficult to appreciate just how unpopular he became in his native Russia.

The Conversation

Mikhail Gorbachev: southern Africans have a special reason to thank him

The whole world has much to thank Mikhail Gorbachev for. As many have pointed out since his death in Moscow earlier this week, Gorbachev – the last leader of the Soviet Union – did more than anyone to bring the Cold War to an end peacefully, reducing the threat that…

France 24

Why was Gorbachev so popular in West, so unpopular in Russia?

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev prompted gushing tributes from across the West on Wednesday but much less of a reaction in Russia. FRANCE 24 examines why Gorbachev is lionised in the West for his role in ending the Cold War, but scorned in Russia for overseeing the collapse of the…

Radio France Internationale

How Gorbachev's 'perestroika' resonated on the African continent

The late Mikhail Gorbachev is praised in the West for helping to end the Cold War and a bipolar world in which Soviet-allied African countries found themselves at the mercy of strategic struggles between Washington and Moscow. Released from the 'bear-hug', some states faired better than others.

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