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Yulia Navalnaya, 47, said today that her late husband's body had been murdered and that she was uncertain if his funeral will be a peaceful affair or if police will make arrests. 'You are not dealing with a politician but a bloody monster,' she said in relation to Putin, who was accused of murdering her husband.' Navalnaya was speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 12 days after her husband became unconscious and died suddenly aged 47 after a walk across the Arctic Circle where he was serving a three-decade term. Following a farewell service at a church in the Maryino district beginning at 2 p.m., Putin's funeral will be held at the Borisovskoye cemetery, according to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, who was formerly known as Twitter. The Kremlin warned yesterday that Russians should not use Navalny's funeral as a point for rioting.

Mourners from around the world have gathered to honor late Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who died on Friday at the jail camp in northern Russia where he was being detained. The Russian opposition leader's death, just weeks after being moved to Kharp's brutal camp, has shocked the world and sparked outrage in Russia, where Navalny's allies are blamed for his untimely death at the age of 47. Authorities in several Russian cities have clamped down on demonstrations and vigils, with demonstrators photographed dragging followers away from makeshift memorials. Masked police were seen in Moscow deposing mourners at a memorial to victims of Soviet repression, with at least 177 people detained in Russia so far.

Gorbachev will lay in honor at the Hall of Columns inside a historic Moscow building that was traditionally used for the funerals of top politicians, including Joseph Stalin in 1953. Though it has not been revealed who is attending the funeral, the Kremlin has confirmed that Putin will not be absent due to scheduling issues. Gorbachev, a'serious and long illness' that was affectionately known in the West, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, according to the hospital where he was treated.

According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, he would not attend Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral on Saturday because of his 'work commitments,' rather than his. It comes after Putin was seen on Russian state television bowing his head after laying a bouquet of red roses near Gorbachev's open casket (main) at the hospital where he died on Tuesday at the age of 91. He paused for a moment of silence, bowed his head, briefly laid his hand on the casket, and then gave a sign of the cross. The Moscow Hall of Columns will host Gorbachev's funeral service on Saturday. It has been used for funeral services of high executives, including Joseph Stalin in 1953. Gorbachev will be buried in Moscow next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.

MX HASTINGS: Mikhail Gorbachev was the first Russian leader to achieve international recognition in modern history, but he was only rewarded with hate and contempt at home. Instead of turning his country into a poorer but nicer member of the international community after decades in which the Soviet Union's top export had been terror, 'Gorby', a port-wine birthmark on his head, groped instead toward making his country a poorer but more gracious member of the international community. His buzzwords, glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restucturing), have morphed into Western folklore, as have Margaret Thatcher's endorsement of him as 'a man one could do business with'.

Despite the fact that the last incarnation of the Soviet Union was largely criticized by Kremlin hardliners for failing to prevent the demise of the Soviet Union following the Cold War, Vladimir Putin's spin doctors expressed'sympathies' over Mikhail Gorbachev's death aged 91. Gorbachev died "after a lengthy and complicated illness," according to Interfax, TASS, and RIA Novosti news agencies, but gave no other details. He had been suffering from long-term kidney disease and was on dialysis for the past, and had been tied to a clinic during the Covid pandemic. Despite being in office less than seven years, Gorbachev introduced a string of reforms that culminated in dramatic changes, including the reunification of Germany, the demise of Stalin's empire, the independence of Eastern European nations, including Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics from decades of Russian domination, as well as the break of the nuclear war with Europe. Putin's spokesperson said in a tweet that the President - who has sluggishly called the demise of the USSR the 'largest geopolitical disaster' of the twentieth century - has expressed "deep sympathy" for Gorbachev's death.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who was mocked by Vladimir Putin and Russian nationalists for causing the Cold War and failing to prevent the Soviet Union from crashing at the age of 91, according to Russian news agencies. According to the Interfax, TASS, and RIA Novosti news agencies, the former Soviet leader died "after a long and difficult illness." During the pandemic, Gorbachev had been suffering from long-term kidney disease and dialysis and was confined to a clinic. The USSR's last president forged a series of arms reduction agreements with the United States and Western powers, including Britain, to destroy the Iron Curtain that had divided the European continent since the Second World War, and bring about Germany's reunification.