The death of Mikhail Gorbachev is widely being mourned as the loss of a champion of freedom who helped end the Cold War.
But the legacy of the last leader of the Soviet Union is very different at home, where many view him as the man responsible for its collapse.
His passing received a cool response in Russia.
Many people there regard the war in Ukraine as necessary to regain some of the power the former USSR lost when it fell.

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra

Guests
Pavel Felgenhauer, Defence and Military Analyst.
Maria Lipman, Russian editor and political analyst.
Donald Jensen, director of Russia and Strategic Stability at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a Former U.S. Diplomat in Moscow .

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