Russia is mourning the death of Alexander Solgenitzin, the dissident writer who denounced the horrors of Soviet regime.
"It's a heavy loss for all of Russia," he said in a statement, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. "We Aleksandr Isayevich Solgenitzin proud that it has been one of our fellow citizen and our contemporary. We will remember him as a person strong, courageous and with enormous dignity, "said the former head of the Kremlin. A message of condolence also came from President Dmitry Medvedev. Another former president, Mikhail Gorbachev, said the debt that Russia will always have with the author of "The Gulag Archipelago," died at the age of 89. "Until the end of his days he fought for Russia not only away from its totalitarian past but also give a worthy future, we owe him a lot," said the creator of "glasnost" and "perestroika".
Solgenitzin's disappearance is a loss not only for Russia but for the entire free world.
Farewell Aleksandr Isaevich
