Dusty and streaked with dirt, an enormous bust of Vladimir Lenin, finished only from the nose up, sits in a desolate courtyard. Its eyes seem to have risen from the ground itself, peering at all who pass by. Taken in 1992, just months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is the photograph that [...]
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December 8, 2011
December 6, 2011
Moscow’s private galleries: From classic cars to modern art
Moscow is famous for its many museums, but it seems their number is still on the rise, courtesy of an unexpected source – the private museums of individual collectors. Classic car collecting was never your average hobby in the USSR. In Soviet times, a personal car was a luxury rather than an everyday mode of [...]
November 30, 2011
Residents Call on Governor To Restore Historical Street Names
Residents Call on Governor To Restore Historical Street Names The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 30, 2011 (Issue # 1685) About 1,500 city residents have appealed to St. Petersburg City Governor Georgy Poltavchenko requesting that a number of St. Petersburg streets and squares be given back the names they had before the 1917 Revolution, and [...]
November 7, 2011
November 5, 2011
Bashkortostan’s Capital Unveils New Lenin Monument
UFA, Russia — A new monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin has been unveiled in Ufa, the capital of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. Some 100 people, including Gennady Zyuganov, chairman of Russia’s Communist Party, attended the ceremony. The monument is located in a small park on Communist Street. It is [...]
November 3, 2011
Lenin’s curse: Is leader’s statue bad for business?
A new statue of Vladimir Lenin has been unveiled in the city of Ufa in the Volga District. The first in Russia this century, it is actually the city’s third statue of the Bolshevik leader to stand on the same spot. The first was erected in 1924 and stood there for 14 years; the second [...]
October 17, 2011
Antipoverty Activists Raise Jolly Roger On Symbol Of 1917 Russian Revolution
ST. PETERSBURG — Five young Russian activists have landed themselves in trouble with the law after raising the Jolly Roger on a symbol of the Russian Revolution, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. The five were taken into custody after symbolically “capturing” the legendary gunship “Aurora” in St. Petersburg on October 16. It was a cannon shot [...]
October 15, 2011
Lenin and tsar fined for booze on Red Square
Mortal enemies Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin have joined forces against Moscow’s police. The two say they have been wrongly fined 20,000 rubles for hooliganism and drinking alcohol on the streets. Nicholas and Lenin are the actors who earn their daily bread entertaining passersby near Red Square. The heroes of the past say they have [...]
September 18, 2011
Lazy and loving it
One of the key characters in Russian literature – Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, the personification of idleness and time-wasting – has inspired a one-off festival in the city of Ulyanovsk. For reasons best known to its residents, Oblomov is said to be especially popular in the old city which lies on the Volga River about 900 [...]
September 15, 2011
‘Useful Idiots’ Back Medvedev’s Re-Election
‘Useful Idiots’ Back Medvedev’s Re-Election By Vladimir Ryzhkov Published: September 14, 2011 (Issue # 1674) It was really pointless for observers to have spent the last three years asking the question: “Who is better, Medvedev or Putin?” and to have worked themselves up over the conundrum even more during the run-up to elections each fall. [...]