MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum will remain on the Red Square, next to the Kremlin wall, the Kremlin property chief said.
"This is not an issue for today or tomorrow," Vladimir Kozhin said.
Although Kozhin acknowledged that "the mausoleum does not quite fit today's realities and the issue will probably be considered one day," he said the time had not yet come as for many generations this issue might be painful.
"Any move could stir up and split the country," he said.
Last month, Russian politicians and activists used the 86th anniversary of Lenin's death to renew calls to bury the architect of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
The founder of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet state died on January 21, 1924.
His body was embalmed soon after death and preserved in the mausoleum. The current mausoleum was completed in October 1930, but since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Lenin's presence in the heart of Moscow has been a source of controversy.
