Aboutrban became the only European leader who arrived in Moscow to say goodbye to the former president of the USSR. The ceremony was also attended by the ambassadors of the USA, Germany, Great Britain and a number of other European states Viktor Orban Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Moscow and arrived at the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions, where he is saying goodbye to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the correspondent of RBC reports. This is the only European leader who has come to Moscow. In addition to Orban, former adviser to US President Ronald Reagan Suzanne Massey, US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, British Ambassador Deborah Bronnert, German Ambassador Geza Andreas von Geir, as well as ambassadors of Greece, Finland, Kyrgyzstan and the Czech Republic came to say goodbye. The farewell to Gorbachev was organized by the protocol service of the Presidential Administration of Russia. It started at 10:00 and ended around 14:20.
Gorbachev died on the evening of August 30 in Moscow, he was 91 years old. In recent years, he has been undergoing hemodialysis.
The ex-president of the USSR will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999. Russian President Vladimir Putin could not attend the ceremony due to the schedule, but he visited the Central Committee on September 1 and said goodbye to the politician there.
The last time a state funeral at the highest level was organized on the occasion of the death of Patriarch Alexy II in 2008. The farewell ceremony was attended by representatives of the highest clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, at that time Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, heads of regions of the country and leaders of a number of foreign countries – Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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