(3 Sep 2022)
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Moscow - 3 September 2022
1. Various of Nobel Prize Winner and Novaya Gazeta's chief editor Dmitry Muratov carrying Gorbachev's portrait, followed by Gorbachev's coffin
HEADLINE: Ex-Soviet Leader Gorbachev laid to rest
ANNOTATION: Russia has bid farewell to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
2. Mid of Gorbachev's coffin being brought in for the funeral service
ANNOTATION: Mourners paid tribute to Gorbachev, who died at the age of 91, in a farewell snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
3. Mid of Gorbachev's daughter Irina at the funeral service
ANNOTATION: "The low-key ceremony contrasted with the lavish 2007 state funeral given to the post-Soviet country's first president Boris Yeltsin."
4. Wide of crowds
ANNOTATION: "Thousands of mourners lined up in central Moscow to pay their last respects."
5. Various of guards of honor rotating around coffin
ANNOTATION: "Mourners passed by Gorbachev's open casket while Gorbachev's daughter, Irina, and his two granddaughters sat beside the coffin."
ANNOTATION: "The Kremlin's refusal to declare a state funeral reflects its uneasiness about the legacy of Gorbachev."
6. Various of mourners
ANNOTATION: "The late Soviet leader launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union."
7. Wide of coffin being lowered
ANNOTATION: "But he is reviled by many at home for the Soviet collapse and the ensuing economic meltdown."
8. Mid of coffin being lowered
ANNOTATION: "Gorbachev was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife, Raisa."
STORYLINE:
Russians on Saturday bid farewell to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died earlier in the week at the age of 91.
Mourners filed past his coffin in the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions to pay their last respects.
The iconic mansion near the Kremlin in Moscow has served as the venue for state funerals since Soviet times.
Gorbachev, whose drastic reforms helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, is set to be buried in a relatively low-key ceremony later on Saturday.
He was laid to rest at Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery, next to his wife, Raisa.
The Kremlin's refusal to declare a state funeral reflects its uneasiness about the legacy of Gorbachev.
Although venerated worldwide for bringing down the Iron Curtain, he is reviled by many at home for the Soviet collapse and the ensuing economic meltdown that plunged millions into poverty.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral ceremony.
On Thursday, he privately laid flowers at Gorbachev's coffin at a Moscow hospital where he passed away two days earlier.
The Kremlin said the president's busy schedule would prevent him from attending the funeral.
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