Moscow Patriarchate Spokesman Calls for Patience in Considering Lenin's Burial

Fr. Vsevolod Chaplin, a spokesman of the Moscow Patriarchate, has called on the Russian government not to make any unconsidered decisions regarding the disposal of Vladimir Lenin's body, which despite efforts at preserving it incorrupt continues to rot in its Soviet-era mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square. Although the Russian Orthodox Church supports the removal of Lenin's body from Red Square, Fr. Vsevolod urged the government not to hastily make any decisions that would offend large segments of Russian society. More here.

Romanov Grand Duchess Endorses Restoration of Kostroma Chapel

Grand Duchess Mariya Vladimirovna Romanova, head of the House of Romanov, has endorsed plans to restore a chapel in Kostroma built as a memorial to the 300th anniversary of the rule of the Romanovs. The chapel was unfinished at the time of the Revolution and subsequently had a statue of Lenin placed at its top. No changes have been approved, but it is hoped that the chapel will be restored in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the rise of the Romanovs to the imperial throne of Rus'. More here.

Muslim Proposal on the Lenin Mausoleum

The head of Russia's national organization for Muslims has called on the Communist Party of Russia to take over the cost of maintaining the Lenin Mausoleum and keeping Vladimir I. Lenin's body from continuing to rot. In recent years pressure has mounted for Lenin to be buried to save the state the cost of maintaining his reliquary-style mausoleum and to unify the nation, whose Communists venerate Lenin and whose religious faithful see him as a precurser of the Antichrist. More here.