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Thousands pay last respects to Gorbachev in Moscow, Putin a no-show
The last leader of the Soviet Union, who died Tuesday at the age of 91, will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife, Raisa.
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While Western Europe praised the last Soviet leader, the Baltic country was openly critical about his legacy.
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Tributes have flooded in from across Europe, but there has been a more muted reaction in Russia.
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Ukraine's first President Leonid Kravchuk dies aged 88
Kravchuk was a driving force in Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Soviet 'friendship monument' taken down in Kyiv
Ukrainian authorities dismantled the Monument of People's Friendship on Tuesday, a statue overlooking the Dnieper River in Kyiv, representing Russian-Ukrainian friendship.
Lithuanians accuse ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev of war crimes
The former Soviet leader is accused of ordering an attack on Vilnius in January 1991, which killed 14 people.
It's 30 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union
The USSR was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev tried to get Russia on the wagon. He failed
Mikhail Gorbachev is remembered for dismantling the USSR and bringing about the end of Communism in the Soviet Union, but when he took power in 1985 his ambitions were far less radical.
Hail Vladimir? Putin says he drove a taxi after Soviet Union's fall
Putin once called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century".
Visit Transnistria: The breakaway state that's in the Champions League
If you’re looking to visit somewhere really off-the-beaten-track, the self-declared independent state of Transnistria should have you fumbling for your passport.
Ukraine 'has very significant international support' over Crimea
It comes as Ukraine marked 30 years since it decided to leave the Soviet Union.
Estonia marks 30 years of restored independence
Entrpreneurism, digitalisation, Schengen and NATO: are these the secrets of success for Estonia, or is it their famous methodical manner?
In pictures: May Day through history
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Court approves statue of Soviet leader Lenin in Germany
The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany got the go-ahead to erect a statue of Lenin in the city of Gelsenkirchen, despite city authorities trying to block it.
'Chisels were sold out across Berlin': Fall of the wall remembered
'Chisels were sold out across Berlin': Euronews journalists remember the fall of the wall