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The Moscow press did not skimp on the coverage of the death of Elizabeth II, much more respected in the former Russian empire than the British Prime Ministers, especially the last two. As can be felt in Sergei Strokan’s editorial in the pages of the daily Kommersant.
“This country, which for centuries and still has global ambitions today, without asking whether they are still justified, has just realized, shocked, that its queen… its mascot, its refuge and its landmark, the one who has united in its vaulted silhouette the unique historical, cultural and civilizational identities of the United Kingdom, is no longer at its side”, he writes, before saluting the queen’s determination to fulfill her supreme function to the end:
“On the eve