Brezhnev relaxing in Moscow in 1971 (ITAR-TASS) MOSCOW, December 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The history books will not remember Leonid Brezhnev as the most influential of Soviet leaders. His rule, between ...

DEAR OLD NABEREZHNIYE CHELNY. Residents of Brezhnev want their city’s name changed. They don’t like to be associated with the late leader Leonid Brezhnev. Similar name changes have been made in the ...

A new leader comes to the Kremlin in a time of chaos, replacing a bumbling and erratic predecessor. He loves to hunt and drive fast cars. He ushers in an era of stability and relative prosperity, ...

The grandson of the late Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, is founding a new communist Party in Russia in the hope of appealing to a younger generation. Andrei Brezhnev told the BBC his grandfather ...