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Andrew Roth in Moscow

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Mikhail gorbachev funeral held in moscow as putin too busy to attend - You Need To See This

Honour guards stand by the Gorbachev’s coffin inside the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions during a farewell ceremony in Moscow on Saturday.
Gorbachev’s coffin inside the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions during a farewell ceremony in Moscow on Saturday. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

Hundreds of mourners are lining up in central Moscow to bid farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union often credited with bringing an end to the cold war.

The farewell ceremony, which is being held in the Hall of Pillars in Moscow’s House of the Unions, will be followed by a closed funeral in the Novodevichy cemetery.

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