MOSCOW, April 21 (RIA Novosti) - The ongoing...

On the eve of the 139th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, financial difficulties mean that Lenin will be forced to continue wearing an old suit for the sixth straight year, the Trud newspaper said on Tuesday.

Lenin's embalmed body has been on public display in a glass case in the mausoleum since his death following a series of strokes in 1924.

Tuesday saw the reopening of the mausoleum to the public after two months of maintenance work, during which Lenin's corpse was bathed in special preserving fluids.

"This is a unique technology," Yury Denisov-Nikolski, the vice-director of the scientific research institute that carried out the work, told the paper. "Thanks to it, Lenin will be able to lie here for another hundred years."

However, the expert also bemoaned the lack of government funding for the mausoleum.

"The state hasn't allocated a single kopek since 1992. Everything is held together by the Lenin

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