MOSCOW, April 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
Flowers will be laid at Lenin's Mausoleum and there will be ceremonies in honor of the founder of the Soviet Union across Russia, including in his birthplace of Ulyanovsk, but major events will wait until next year's 140th anniversary.
"In Moscow we will hold only a mass placing of flowers at the Mausoleum. Other large-scale events are not planned, but regional chapters will hold Lenin readings, meetings and roundtables in memory of the great man," Russian Communist Party secretary Valery Rashkin told RIA Novosti.
Lenin retains some support but is a controversial figure in Russian history, with the exhibition of his corpse in a mausoleum on Red Square particularly contentious.
Although an opinion poll in November of last year saw only 42% of respondents claim they were "positive" about the father of the Bolshevik Revolution - eight points down on 2005 - he was still the second-most-popular figure after Nicholas II, the last tsar.