President Putin is not attending the funeral of his Kremlin predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev, on Saturday in what many are interpreting as a deliberate snub.

Russia's Vladimir Putin will not attend Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral on Saturday, citing a scheduling conflict, but he laid flowers at the former Soviet leader's coffin on Thursday and paid tribute ...

On Thursday, Putin privately laid flowers at Gorbachev's coffin at a Moscow hospital where he died. The Kremlin said the president's busy schedule would prevent him from attending the funeral.

The former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will not receive a full state funeral and Russian President ... "Gorbachev ended the Cold War, Putin has launched a new Cold War with the U.S. and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin skipped out on Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral after he refused to declare a state funeral. Putin was critical of Gorbachev's relationship with the West.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours ...

It’s hard to sift history’s judgment from the hot takes, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telegram of condolence on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev does little to help.

People stand by the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev inside the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions during a farewell ceremony in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022.

Gorbachev’s daughter, Irina, and his two granddaughters sat beside the coffin. More: Mikhail Gorbachev dies at age 91: See the former Soviet leader's political career in photos ...

The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was buried in Moscow on Saturday after a funeral that was snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and not accorded the status of a ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had 'huge impact on the course of world history', says Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin expressed 'deepest condolences' after the 91-year-old died following a 'serious and prolonged ...

Such are history’s bookends between Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, and Vladimir Putin, Russia's president. In many ways, Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, unwittingly enabled Putin.