The funeral of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who passed away on the 30th of last month at the age of 91, was held in Moscow, Russia on the 3rd local time.
Thousands of mourners gathered, and the new ambassador to Russia, Jang Ho-jin, from Korea attended.
Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year, led the carriage with the statue.
But Putin was not present at the funeral.
Putin has previously criticized the collapse of the former Soviet Union by Gorbachev as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”
In addition, the Russian government supported funeral services such as bodyguards and honor guards, but it was not officially held as a funeral service.
For this reason, foreign media pointed out that it is different from the fact that Putin held a funeral and declared a national mourning day when former President Boris Yeltsin passed away in 2007.
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