In Moscow, they say goodbye to Gorbachev. Putin demonstratively ignored the ceremony and denied him in state honors
Police miss several dozen people in groups, is evidenced by the broadcast, which is maintained by Reuters. A long queue was lined up near the fences installed near the building. Today, on September 3, Gorbachev is buried in Novodovychi Cemetery near his wife Raisa, who died 23 years ago.
Video Day World news agencies emphasize that the Russian authorities did not organize a state funeral ceremony for Gorbachev - honors with the strict rules of the protocol, which are held on the occasion of farewell to people who have particularly influenced the life of the country. Putin has repeatedly called the collapse of the USSR, which happened to Gorbachev, "the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century", today the ceremony will not visit him.
The Kremlin declared it in advance, referring to the "dense schedule" of the Russian dictator. Putin said goodbye to Gorbachev in the morgue of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow earlier, on September 1 - without additional ceremonies and participants. However, the Russian media report that today's farewell to Gorbachev was visited by the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.
"Mikhail Gorbachev is a Soviet leader who was fond of the West and who lived for a long time to see the breakdown of all the reforms for which he performed - will be buried on Saturday without state honors and the presence of Vladimir Putin," the Reuters agency describes today. According to him, the only sign of state attention today is the Honorary Guard near Gorbachev's coffin.
The AFP agency also emphasizes that Gorbachev is hiding "without Fanfar" the state funeral ceremony and "in the absence of Vladimir Putin, which apparently causes the eye. " AFP notes that the absence of Putin at the funeral "is a sign of the contradictory heritage of Gorbachev in Russia, where the reaction to his death was sharply different from the reaction in the West. " Earlier, Germany announced that on September 3, Berlin will be launched flags in memory of Gorbachev.
Germany believes that he played a significant role in the non -interference of the Soviet troops during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the further unification of Germany. Reuters also emphasizes that due to the actual break of relations with the Russian Federation against the background of its war against Ukraine in Moscow there are no western leaders today, who otherwise could probably visit the ceremony.