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

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 ...

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

IDEAS 100 years after Lenin’s death, his curse still grips Russia The founder of the Soviet Union died in 1924, but his embalmed body remains on display in a country that doesn’t know how to ...

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 ...

Lenin's hold on Russia's heart is still strong enough that three years ago, the Union of Russian Architects succumbed to a public outcry and canceled a competition soliciting suggestions for how ...