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Vladimir putin gave to the US President's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff the Order of Lenin, intended for the CIA deputy ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Order of Lenin award to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to pass along to a senior CIA ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has given an award intended for a senior CIA official whose son was killed fighting on Russia's ...

The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997.

On August 12, 1989, live music in Russia changed forever, thanks to the Moscow Music Peace Festival at Central Lenin Stadium.

Barentsburg is a geopolitical quirk: a Russian company town squatting on Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that belongs to ...

FILE – Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is shown in at work at an unknown location of Russia in 1918. Shortly after his death in 1924, a poet proclaimed words that thrilled the ...

Russia Weighs What to Do With Lenin's Body Aide to Pres Vladimir Putin suggests removing Lenin's body from mausoleum in Red Square where it has rested for eight decades and giving Soviet founder ...

Yet on Lenin’s sesquicentennial, April 22, the country he created no longer exists and its successor state -- Russia -- seems decidedly uninterested in marking 150 years since his birth.