Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday hailed Mikhail Gorbachev’s role in reuniting Germany but lamented that his attempt to establish enduring democracy in Russia had “failed”.

“The democracy movements in central and eastern Europe benefited from the fact he was in power then in Russia,” Scholz said. However Gorbachev “died at a time in which democracy has failed in Russia

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