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In Ukraine’s Sloviansk, some are abandoning long-held sympathies for Russia

Locals who sided with pro-Russian separatists become ideologically closer to Ukraine as the war rumbles on.

Al Jazeera

Watch: Mikhail Gorbachev funeral held in Moscow

Mourners have gathered in Moscow for the funeral of Mikhail Gobrachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union.Mr Gorbachev, who was credited with helping to bring an end to the Cold War and opening up the former USSR, died on Tuesday at the age of 91.On Saturday, his coffin was…

Evening Standard

Gorbachev will be laid to rest at the weekend, but no state funeral for former leader, says Russian media

The funeral will take place on Saturday

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In pictures: Mikhail Gorbachev - man who helped end the Cold War was feted in the west

The lifelong communist took the reins at a tense time in the Cold War but eventually presided over the demise of the Soviet Union.

Evening Standard

A time of hope, now dashed – former Reuters reporter recalls the Gorbachev years

Euphoria. There is no better word to describe my feelings, the feelings of many in the Soviet intelligentsia, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and started the reforms that the world came to know as perestroika and glasnost. It was the euphoria of liberation, freedom, hope.

Reuters

Gorbachev on Gorbachev: the last Soviet leader in his own words

Following are some notable quotes from Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91.

Reuters

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91

His death was announced by multiple Russian news agencies on Tuesday evening, citing officials at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow.

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Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse

Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the gravedigger of the communist Soviet Union.

Reuters

In Pictures: Man who helped end the Cold War was feted in the west

The lifelong communist took the reins at a tense time in the Cold War but eventually presided over the demise of the Soviet Union.

The Independent UK

Ukraine buries agricultural 'titan' killed in missile strike

Orthodox chants of mourning resounded in a packed central Kyiv cathedral on Friday as Ukraine buried an agricultural tycoon with his wife after they were killed in a missile strike that hit his home last weekend.

Reuters

Did Russia deliberately kill Vadatursky, Ukraine’s grain tycoon?

A Russian missile killed Oleksiy Vadatursky and his wife Raisa, a day before grain exports resumed from Odesa.

Al Jazeera

France probes Emirati Interpol president over torture allegations

French anti-terror prosecutors have opened a preliminary inquiry into Interpol chief Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi over allegations he took part in the torture and abuse of prisoners when he was a top official at the UAE's Interior Ministry.

Radio France Internationale

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