A woman holds a caricature depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during an opposition rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday. The rally came a day after policed raided the homes of protest leaders. Opposition figures likened the raids to the repression of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. (Associated Press)
A woman holds a caricature depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during an opposition rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday. The rally came a day after policed raided the homes of protest leaders. Opposition figures likened the raids to the repression of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. (Associated Press)
A bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin sits inside a museum dedicated to him in the town of Gori, some 50 miles west of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Monday, April 9, 2012. The museum, which has honored Stalin since 1937, is being remodeled to exhibit the atrocities that were committed during his rule. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)
In this Aug. 14, 1997 file photo Rusia's first President Boris Yeltsin kisses a hand of poet Bella Akhmadulina after awarding her with a medal in the Kremlin in Moscow. The Moscow Writers Union said Monday Nov 29 2010 that Bella Akhmadulina, one of the most popular poets of the Soviet era, has died at age 73. In the 1960s Akhmadulina and other poets of her generation drew audiences of thousands striving for intellectual freedom in a brief thaw that followed Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's death. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, file)
