I'm afraid they are going to discard it eventually... Russia (BOTH the Government and the Nation) barely (if any) respects the living - how do you think they will treat the dead? Lenin's corpse is THE ONLY sacred thing for them!
You absolutely don't want to acquire the Russian Ctizenship (if you don't have it). As of 2002, you would have to address foreign officials to renounce you foreign Citizenship (American, in your case)
Not if you read the Law carefully
As of February 6, 1992, were you, or were you not, present in Russia? (And by "present" I mean being in a possession of Soviet Passport with "propiska" ANYWHERE in Russian Federation)
I am sorry, but it seems you are trying to apply a US routine to Russian reality. Alas, it does not work this way, no matter how much I wish it did...
Look, if you did NOT have "propiska" ANYWHERE in Russian Federation AS OF February 6, 1992, you are NOT a Citizen of Russia. As long as you establish that, you must NOT be treated as a Russian Citizen. You will apply for a Russian visa as a US Citizen.
If, however, you HAD "propiska" in Russian Federation as of February 6, 1992, you ARE a Citizen of Russia, and their finding of you not being a Citizen is WRONG. I don't really know how to fix such wrongdoing, at least in Russia. In the USA, in such cases there is a due appeal process. In Russia... I have no idea. Sorry!
For that you must be in a possession of a VALID Russian passport. Besides, "dropping off" takes A YEAR.
You've got to ether get your Russian passport or get a Russian visa in the US passport, depending on your status (see the "key question" above)
I don't know of any such stories, but... Try searching the forum.
Again, sorry for your loss, and... good luck dealing with Russian bureaucracy (now you can compare it to that of the USA and make a "qualified comparison"...)




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