FILE – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bids a final farewell to his wife Raisa just m …

FILE - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bids a final farewell to his wife Raisa just m ...

FILE – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bids a final farewell to his wife Raisa just minutes before she was buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 23, 1999. When Mikhail Gorbachev is buried Saturday at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery, he will once again be next to his wife, Raisa, with whom he shared the world stage in a visibly close and loving marriage that was unprecedented for a Soviet leader. Gorbachev’s very public devotion to his family broke the stuffy mold of previous Soviet leaders, just as his openness to political reform did. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)