The Russian president has already placed flowers on his coffin but his schedule “will not allow him to be” at the wake on Saturday
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who put an end to the Soviet Union and the Cold War, this Saturday. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, stressed this Thursday that the president’s agenda “will not allow him to be” at the ceremony of the former leader, who died at the age of 91, whom Putin considers the architect of “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” , alluding to the disintegration of the USSR.
Although he will not attend the wake, Peskov has stated that the head of the Kremlin has already visited the hospital where Gorbachev died to pay tribute to him and “place flowers on his coffin.” He has also pointed out that there will be “national funeral elements” during the burial, such as an “honor guard”, organized “with the help of the State”.
The father of ‘perestroika’ died Tuesday night after a “long and serious illness,” according to the statement released by the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital, where he had been hospitalized since the beginning of the pandemic. He was undergoing hemodialysis for kidney failure.
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