11 Dec 2012 20:18

Lenin's reburial "not on the agenda" - Putin spokesman

NOVO-OGARYOVO, near Moscow. Dec 11 (Interfax) - The proposed reburial of Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin "is not on the agenda," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Tuesday.

Nor did Putin draw any parallels between Lenin's embalmed body, which lies in a granite mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, and the relics of saints during a meeting on Monday with his former election campaign activists, Peskov told reporters. "There's no way there could have been any direct comparison. It's clearly torn out of context," the spokesman said.