Mikhail Gorbachev was the final President of the Soviet Union. (File)

Washington:

US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan will attend the funeral of the final Soviet chief Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on Saturday, a State Department spokesperson mentioned on Friday.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War with out bloodshed however failed to forestall the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday aged 91 at a Moscow hospital.

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