But President Putin will not be attending the funeral of the man who oversaw the breakup of the USSR.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, will be buried in Moscow on Saturday - four days after he died.
Outside Russia, he was widely respected, with the UN Secretary General António Guterres saying he had "changed the course of history", and US President Joe Biden calling him a "rare leader". President Putin earlier sent his "deepest condolences", describing how Mikhail Gorbachev, who was 91, had had "a huge impact in the course of history".
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