In the center of Shchyolkovo, Moscow region, a fire broke out in the local administration building overnight on August 13.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

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

Vladimir Putin gave Trump envoy Steve Witkoff an award meant for a senior CIA official whose son was killed in Ukraine while ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A Russian communist holds placards with portraits of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin during a rally to celebrate International Workers' Day, or Labour Day in Moscow May 1, 2012.

The Russian national flag flies with a statue of the founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin in the foreground in the centre of Stavropol, April 12, 2010. Lenin's approval rating is soaring ...