`New Cold War may break out between US, China`

Last Updated: Friday, August 24, 2012, 14:08

The US and Soviet camps confronted each other militarily, ideologically and economically during the Cold War.

Half of Russians want Lenin buried: Poll

Last Updated: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 10:04

The debate about what to do with Vladimir Lenin`s body has been going on ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Lenin set for burial 88 years after death

Last Updated: Sunday, June 10, 2012, 13:34

The revolutionary`s body remains on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow`s Red Square, more than two decades after the break-up of the former USSR.

`Human rights violated across former Soviet Union`

Last Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 16:14

Human rights violations are still widespread across countries of the former Soviet Union, rights group Amnesty International has said.

Was Lenin poisoned to death by Stalin?

Last Updated: Sunday, May 6, 2012, 16:55

Popular theory maintains that Vladmir Lenin died from the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis.

‘70 percent Russians never left ex-Soviet Union’

Last Updated: Friday, April 6, 2012, 12:18

More than two-thirds of the Russian population -- 70 percent -- has never been to countries outside the former Soviet Union, independent pollster Levada has found.