INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, presidential spokesperson Dmitry
Gorbachev is currently lying in state.The funeral of Gorbachev, who led the Soviet Union through its final years, will take place in Moscow
West as the leader who helped end the Cold War, many Russians are more ambiguous about his legacy, in part because of the hardship and
poverty of the 1990s.Putin has had a complicated relationship with Gorbachev, who was in charge of the Soviet as it fell apart, an event
historic fourth term in 2018, Gorbachev was saying Putin was the kind of leader Russia needed in a "very complicated international
situation."AFP contributed reporting.
