On March 8, the entire country gets the day off to celebrate women. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev made March 8 an official non-working day in 1965, but it had been an official holiday since 1918 ...

Twelve years after the death of Leonid ... a day,” the widow maintained-unless he was very upset about something. “When his granddaughter Vitussya divorced her husband,” Mrs. Brezhnev ...

On November 10, 1982, Leonid Brezhnev died, sparking a generational ... in Russia that remains incomplete and inconclusive to this day. The players' names have changed as has the lexicon, but ...