Mikhail Gorbachev was the last President of the Soviet Union. (file)
Washington:
US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan will attend the funeral of last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on Saturday, a State Department spokesman said on Friday.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died Tuesday at the age of 91 in a Moscow hospital.
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