Absent of weight.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral on Saturday of the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at the age of 91, the Kremlin spokesman said Thursday.
"We know that the main ceremony will be on September 3, as well as the funeral, but the president's schedule will not allow him to be there," Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The latter said that Vladimir Putin had already gone to the Central Clinical Hospital (TSKB) in Moscow on Thursday where Mikhail Gorbachev died to pay tribute to him and “lay flowers near his coffin”.
Dmitri Peskov, however, assured that there will be “elements of a national funeral”, during the burial of Mikhail Gorbachev, in particular a “guard of honor”, and that these are organized “with the help of the 'State ".
A controversial legacy
The last leader of the Soviet Union died Tuesday evening at the age of 91 following a “long and serious illness”.
One of the main political figures of the 20th century, Mikhail Gorbachev made history by precipitating the fall of the Soviet Union in spite of himself in 1991, when he was trying to save it through democratic and economic reforms.
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Death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union
A geopolitical earthquake, the dislocation of the USSR marked the end of the Cold War, the echoes of which have however resonated again since the offensive launched in Ukraine by the current Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy is controversial in Russia: if he is the one through whom freedom of expression may have emerged, he was responsible for many of the breakup of a superpower and the years of crisis. who followed.