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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

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

By Julia Rubin - Associated Press

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)

Gorbachev to be buried in low-key funeral snubbed by Putin

By Jim Heintz and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

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

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives at the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue conference in Dresden on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

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

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

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

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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco, Monday, June 5, 1990. 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/David Longstreath, File)

Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

FILE - Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, signs the decree relinquishing control of nuclear weapons to Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 1991. Gorbachev announced his resignation in a live televised address to the nation on Dec. 25, 1991, drawing a line under more than 74 years of Soviet history. By the fall of 1991, however, deepening economic woes and secessionist bids by Soviet republics had made the collapse of the USSR all but inevitable. The failed August 1991 hardliner coup was a major catalyst, dramatically eroding Gorbachev's authority and encouraging more republics to seek independence. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)

Gorbachev’s resignation 30 years ago marked the end of USSR

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 file photo, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attends the Moscow premier of a film made by Werner Herzog and British filmmaker Andre Singer based on their conversations, in Moscow, Russia. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90 on Tuesday March 2, 2021, receiving greetings from the Kremlin and global leaders while Russians remained divided over his legacy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Former Soviet leader Gorbachev turns 90

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this on Friday, June 12, 1987 file photo, U.S. President Ronald Reagan acknowledges the applause after speaking to an audience in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Beside Reagan are the President of the German Parliament Philipp Jenninger, left, and Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl, right. The U.S. Embassy in Berlin is unveiling the statue of Ronald Reagan as a tribute to the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The larger-than-life statue is being installed Friday atop the embassy's terrace, at eye-level with the landmark Brandenburg Gate in downtown Berlin. (AP PHOTO/Ira Schwartz, File)

Reagan statue unveiled in Berlin at Cold War speech site

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 13, 1989 file photo, East German border guards stand in front of segments of the Berlin Wall, which were removed to open the wall at Potsdamer Platz passage in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then quickly accepting German unification. (AP Photo/John Gaps III, File)

Berlin Wall’s fall stokes memories of lost hopes in Russia

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Demonstrators link hands as they gather along an elevated walkway in Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement created human chains on both sides of the city's harbor Friday, inspired by a historic protest 30 years ago in the Baltic states against Soviet control. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

What the Hong Kong protesters know

By David Keene

FILE - This Jan. 24, 2016 file photo shows director Werner Herzog, director of the documentary during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Herzog says there's a &quot;subversive message” to his new documentary &quot;Meeting Gorbachev&quot;: Talk to your geopolitical enemies. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

Herzog says Gorbachev documentary has a ‘subversive message’

By RYAN PEARSON - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1991, U.S. President George H. Bush, left, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sit together at the Soviet Embassy after meeting in Madrid, Spain. Former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev expressed his "deep condolences" Saturday Dec. 1, 2018, to the family of former U.S President George Bush and all Americans following his death, age 94. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)

Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet Union leader, recalls ‘genuine partner’ George H.W. Bush

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attends the Moscow premier of a film made by Werner Herzog and British filmmaker Andre Singer based on their conversations, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Gorbachev told reporters that urgent efforts must be taken to prevent a new arms race. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Gorbachev calls for preventing new arms race

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