Old Bolsheviks

Statues of Lenin and Stalin, removed from Albania's streets in the dying days of communism three decades ago, have suddenly reappeared in the garden of a government villa. Not everyone is impressed.

But it also highlighted the rising profiles of women in politics — a trend that will continue, no matter how much it terrifies insecure men like Trump.

Historian and former senior official of the SFR Yugoslavia Latinka Perovic said that the anniversary of the Informbiro Resolution is not talked about in Serbia today and that this is not at a coincidence at all primarily because of Russia's role in Serbia.

Academics and activists marked the 70th anniversary of the split between Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, which led to mass persecution and the creation of the Non-Alignment Movement.

Written for the first anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution by the Soviet poet, satirist and intellectual Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Mystery-Bouffe" parodied the structure of medieval mystery plays in an anti-realist work for the masses that was both both revolutionary and futuristic.

Former Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was assassinated in Ankara last year by a police officer, was commemorated in the first anniversary of his death.

The Russian Embassy in Ankara erected a monument for former Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was assassinated on Dec. 19 last year.

A traffic camera in Russia's Volgograd Region snapped a picture of a speeding car driven by a man who resembled the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, with a person resembling Jesus sitting in the passenger's seat.

A Russian man posted a photo sent to him by the Volgograd Region traffic police online, which allegedly depicted his car breaking the speed limit.

"Love is a profoundly social emotion. Love is not in the least a 'private' matter concerning only the two loving persons: love possess a uniting element which is valuable to the collective."

Alexandra Kollontai, "On Marriage and Everyday Life" (1926)

The demolition of a statue of Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin in a small town in northeastern Moldova has angered Communist and Socialist pro-Russian politicians and their supporters - who have threatened retaliation.