Vladimir Putin came to pay his respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, as the Russian president laid flowers on the body of the 91-year-old president.
Putin went to the Central Clinical Hospital, where the open coffin holding Gorbachev’s body is currently located. Not only did he lay out those flowers, but he also held a minute’s silence, touched the coffin, and knelt in front of it before moving forward.
The Kremlin noted that the reason why Vladimir Putin did not attend the official farewell ceremony, which will be held in Moscow at the House of Trade Unions, specifically in the Column Hall, which is a very important place in Moscow next to the State Duma, is simply due to Putin’s work schedule on September 3, where the spokesman said Media The work schedule is very busy.
The Kremlin has also indicated that the ceremony will include elements of state funerals, as there will be an honor guard and a farewell ceremony and the state will help organize the farewell ceremony. It’s not really clear how this will differ from full state funerals, but it certainly appears that there are differences.
Gorbachev will be buried, following that ceremony, at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, the second most important cemetery in Russia, where Nikita Khrushchev, the former president of the Soviet Union, is also buried there, in addition to Gorbachev’s wife, Raisa, who was very loved, until she died in 1999 .
