Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about international politics, economics, and development. MOSCOW—Red Square remains one of the globe’s most iconic locales ...

For thousands of years, man has sought a way to preserve the human body, using a variety of embalming methods and mummification. But even the mummies of ancient Egypt cannot compare to the ...

Almost 94 years after his death and a quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin's mummified body continues to be displayed in a mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow. Though the ...

After Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, Moscow's Red Square became the site of a series of block-shaped structures made to house the embalmed corpse of the Soviet founder. 1 Lenin’s mausoleum ...

In 1991, the Communist Empire of the USSR was destroyed. And one of the main symbols of Soviet power — Lenin's Mausoleum and Lenin's Body itself were left without an owner. The film tells about ...

World leaders whose bodies have been preserved and put on perpetual display, as Venezuela’s government plans to do with Hugo Chavez: VLADIMIR LENIN: Body of Soviet Union’s founder has been displayed ...

A debate about religious sensitivities has been ignited in Russia over one of history's most significant atheists. Vladimir Petrov, a lawmaker from the Leningrad region, has suggested the embalmed ...

The leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has called for the body of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, to be removed from the mausoleum on Moscow's Red ...

In spring 2017, deputies representing the caucuses of the the United Russia party and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia circulated a bill on reburying Lenin's body from Red Square MOSCOW, ...

During his political life, Hugo Chavez took more than a few pages out of the playbook of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, and the emulation will continue even in death. To this day, Lenin’s embalmed body ...

Visiting the attractions of Moscow's Red Square can be expensive, but there's one that remains free: the embalmed body of communist leader Vladimir Lenin. Visiting the attractions of Moscow's Red ...