Mikhail Gorbachev
will have a state funeral which will take place in Moscow on Saturday.
The Tass agency writes it.
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Farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR - Specials
Perestroika, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, nuclear disarmament, withdrawal from Afghanistan: the name of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in hospital at the age of 91 after a long illness, evokes an entire era of historical changes which ended in '91 with the collapse of the USSR, of which he was the last president before ceding power to his rival Boris Ieltsin © ANSA