Armenpress: Gorbachev buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery

Gorbachev buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery

17:24, 3 September 2022

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery alongside his wife Raisa, who died 23 years ago.

Former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin is also buried at Novodevichy.

Gorbachev passed away on August 30 at the age of 91, after a prolonged illness.

He became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985 and served as the first and only president of the Soviet Union (1990-1991).

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS