To mark Back to the Future day on Oct. 21, the precise date in the second installment of Hollywood's comic science-fiction trilogy when the main characters travel in time to 2015, RFE/RL takes a look at seven aspects of the Soviet era that have reappeared since Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Echoes of Soviet past in modern Russia
A couple walks past the mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin at Red Square during a snowfall in Moscow on Oct. 9.
