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FILE - Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov attends a session of the Federation Council, Russian parliament's upper house, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Ryzhkov, former Soviet prime minister who presided over failed efforts to shore up the crumbling economy in the final years before the collapse of the USSR, has died at age 94. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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FILE - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant at the Buckingham Palace in London, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022 was arguably the most high-profile death this year. In her 70 years on the British throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)

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FILE - Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, left, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin sit in a park at Gorki residence in 1922 just outside Moscow, Russia. With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union cast a huge shadow on the world like that of a colossus that would loom forever. Lenin was already in poor health when the USSR was formed and he died of a stroke little more than a year later. Josef Stalin outmaneuvered rivals in the ensuing battle for power. (AP Photo, File)

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Baerbel Bas, President of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, delivers a speech during the memorial hour for the late former Soviet President Gorbachev in the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

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FILE - U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, June 28, 2021. Sullivan, ended his tenure as America's top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022 after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire after a lengthy career in government service, the embassy announced. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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FILE - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev (l) and his wife Raisa wave to well wishers when strolling through market place in downtown Stuttgart, Wednesday, June 14, 1989. In background is the New Castle where Gorbachev had talks with representatives of West German state Baden-Wurttemberg. When Mikhail Gorbachev is buried Saturday at Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, he will once again be next to his wife, Raisa, with whom he shared the world stage in a visibly close and loving marriage that was unprecedented for a Soviet leader. Gorbachev's very public devotion to his family broke the stuffy mold of previous Soviet leaders, just as his openness to political reform did. (AP Photo/Arne Dedert, File)

Gorbachev’s marriage, like his politics, broke the mold

 
FILE - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, his wife Raisa at his side holding an umbrella speak to the media at an polling station in Moscow on March, 26, 1989. When Gorbachev came to power as Soviet leader in 1985, he was younger and more vibrant than his predecessors. He dramatically broke with the Communist past by moving away from a police state, embracing freedom of the press, ending his country's war in Afghanistan and letting go of Eastern European countries that had been locked in Moscow's grip for decades.. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

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Irina Virganskaya, daughter of former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev says goodbye to him for the last time, during his funeral, at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Thousands of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev died Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022 at the age of 91. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Gorbachev buried in Moscow in funeral snubbed by Putin

 
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Putin ally: US dream of Russian breakup is road to doom

 
In this image taken from video provided by the Russian pool television on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his last respect near the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow Russia. (Russian pool via AP)

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Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev toasts with a small glass of lemon-flavored vodka at a going-away party for his staff on Dec. 26, 1991, the day after his nationally televised address in which he announced his resignation as president, in Moscow. Associated Press correspondent Brian Friedman is back right of Gorbachev. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Covering Gorbachev: AP remembers his wit, wisdom, warmth

 
Flowers and a candle are placed at a bust of the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Axel Springer Publisher House in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Gorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity

 
In this image taken from video provided by the Russian pool television on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his last respect near the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow Russia. (Russian pool via AP)

Putin pays tribute to Gorbachev but won’t attend his funeral

 
FILE - Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the start of a news conference at the Castle of Gottorf in Schleswig, northern Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004. One stood for freedom, openness, peace and closer ties with the outside world. The other is jailing critics, muzzling journalists, pushing his country deeper into isolation and waging Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II. Such are history's bookends between Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, and Vladimir Putin, president of Russia. (Carsten Rehder/dpa via AP, File)

History’s bookends: Putin reversed many Gorbachev reforms

 
FILE - Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the start of a news conference at the Castle of Gottorf in Schleswig, northern Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (Carsten Rehder/dpa via AP)

Kremlin offers mixed view of Gorbachev’s historic role

 
FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev checks the time on his watch before his resignation speech in the Kremlin on Dec. 25, 1991. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)

Gorbachev’s funeral, burial will reflect his varied legacy

 
FILE - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during arrival ceremonies at the White House where the superpowers begin their three-day summit talks in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1987. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Gorbachev mourned as rare world leader but some still bitter

 
FILE - Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who became the new Soviet leader following the death of President Constantin Chernenko, studies papers in his Kremlin office on May 1985. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Major events in the life and career of Mikhail Gorbachev

 
FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says in Moscow that a local military commander ordered the use of force in the breakaway republic of Lithuania, where an assault by Soviet troops on Jan. 13, 1991 claimed 14 lives. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Slice of life: Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut ad a time capsule

 
FILE - The Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders falls during its demolition in Riga, Latvia, Aug. 25, 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to a renewed push to topple the last remaining monuments to the Soviet army that remained in Europe. At the end of the communist era, when Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia regained their independence from the Soviet Union, those countries began renaming streets and toppling statues of Lenin and other communist figures. But many memorials to the Red Army remained. (Kaspars Krafts/F64 via AP, File)

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FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during a Revolution Day celebration, in Moscow, Soviet Union, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1989. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

 
FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says in Moscow that a local military commander ordered the use of force in the breakaway republic of Lithuania, where an assault by Soviet troops on Jan. 13, 1991 claimed 14 lives. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Gorbachev, who redirected course of 20th century, dies at 91

 
The AP Moscow photo chief, Liu Heung Shing, who was the only foreign photographer who captured Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation on Dec. 25, 1991 that marked the end of the USSR, gestures during an interview with the Associated Press at the Shanghai Center of Photography in Shanghai, China on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. It was a momentous event that ended an era 30 years ago - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation drawing a line under the USSR's existence. The AP Moscow photo chief, Liu Heung Shing, was the only foreign photographer who captured the final moments of the Soviet Union on Dec. 25, 1991. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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