Western leaders are remembering Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, as a towering statesman who helped end the Cold War.
But his death received a cool response in Russia.
He died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in a Moscow hospital, after two years of serious illness.

Al Jazeera's @Andrew Simmons reports.

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