Putin leads Solzhenitsyn mourners
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin led mourners paying tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the author, dissident and patriot lay in state inside the Russian Academy of Sciences today.
A military honour guard stood next to Solzhenitsyn’s open casket, located in a cavernous hall at the academy, as mourners filed by and placed long-stemmed flowers at the foot of the bier. The ceremony had many of the trappings of a state funeral.
