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No state funeral for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: Russian media
short by Disha Jana / on Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
There will be no state funeral for the ex-president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian media reported on Wednesday. Gorbachev's funeral will reportedly take place inside Moscow's House of Unions and he will likely be buried at the city's Novodevichy Cemetery, next to his wife, Raisa, who died in 1999. The funeral will reportedly take place on Saturday.
read more at The Independent