Ever since president Boris Yeltsin abolished the Soviet anthem seven years ago, Russia has been looking for a text to replace it. Now, some Russian politicians -- and not only communists -- are ...

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Russia looks ready to bring back the Soviet national anthem - without the references to Lenin and the indestructible union of Soviet republics ...

voted overwhelmingly today to restore as Russia's national anthem the music of a song written at the behest of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The 450-member chamber voted 381 to 51 to bring back ...

The new text goes with the Soviet music ... but do not identify the deity with Russian Orthodoxy or any particular religion. The Soviet anthem praised an "unbreakable union of republics ...

Russia yesterday restored the Soviet anthem, giving President Putin's efforts ... will have to be composed afresh. The most recent text refers to "Lenin's Party, the people's force".