Mikhail Gorbachev: 鈥楬e opened the world鈥ow the world is closed鈥�
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91. As a supporter of the de-Stalinization programs of his predecessor Nikita Khrushchev, Gorbachev initiated numerous reforms during his tenure resulting in Russia鈥檚 transition from one party rule to a fragile democracy.
Nina Khrushcheva is the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, who led the former Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 60s. She told Newsday: The whole world should be in Moscow鈥o say goodbye to this great man鈥nd yet nobody is going to come here. The flight spaces are closed. Putin is not going to let everybody in.鈥�
(Picture: Mikhail Gorbachev (C) and his wife Raisa (R) as they are cheered by German people in Bonn, Germany 13 June 1989. Credit: EPA/Frank Kleefeldt)
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