Hubert Védrine: “The way Moscow organizes Gorbachev’s funeral is pathetic”

Neither national mourning nor the presence of Vladimir Putin for the funeral this Saturday, September 3 in Moscow of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR who died on Tuesday August 30 at the age of 91. Popular in the West, the man who put an end to the Soviet empire is unloved in his country. Former Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine, who at the time was adviser to François Mitterrand, tells us about “his” Gorbachev.