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    KUHNER: Bury Lenin - without honors

    Finally, Russians are considering burying Vladimir Lenin. Since his death in 1924, the Bolshevik leader's embalmed body has been lying in a glass coffin in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square. For many, he is the shining symbol of Soviet communism - a martyr to the utopian cause of socialist revolution.

  • Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, lays embalmed in his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, Wednesday April 16, 1997, six days before his 127th April 22 birthday. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

    Russians mull burying Soviet leader Lenin

    The embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin has lain in a glass coffin in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square since his death in 1924. But recent comments by Russia's new culture minister have brought closer the possibility that the father of the Bolshevik Revolution could finally be laid to rest, signaling an end to the cult of Lenin.

  • Russia wants game to mark 1972 Canadian matchup

    Russia wants to hold an exhibition hockey game in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Summit Series between the Soviet Union and Canada.

  • Revelers cheer at midnight in Times Square on New Years Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in New York. Some revelers, wearing party hats and "2012" glasses, began camping out Saturday morning, as workers readied bags stuffed with hundreds of balloons and technicians put colored filters on klieg lights. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    World rings in 2012, bids adieu to a tough 2011

    From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly welcomed a new year Sunday with confetti-filled celebrations, glittering fireworks displays and star-studded festivities.

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