US couple pays 160,000 dollars for lunch with Gorbachev

November 9, 2007 · Filed Under World News · Comment

From AFP:

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will have lunch on Saturday with a US couple who paid 160,000 dollars (109,000 euros) at a charity auction for the pleasure, Interfax news agency reported.

The couple bid the money at the auction in London in June. “We’ll have cabbage, herring and vodka,” all traditional Russian dishes, Gorbachev was quoted as saying on Friday.

The auction raised four million dollars and was organised by the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, named after the late wife of the Soviet leader who died of cancer in 1999.

The money raised will go to two children’s cancer hospitals in Russia.

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