ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia's St. Petersburg commemorated the 81st anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad on Monday with a series of solemn events, including flower-laying ...

But in Russia today there is a discernible shift in focus, away from the Holocaust to how the Soviet people as a whole, ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the ...

27 (Xinhua) -- Russia's St ... The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stands after laying flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument to mark the ...

Fireworks illuminated the evening sky in Russia, marking 80 years since the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Spectacular ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" ...

monument to mark the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, near Kirovsk, Leningrad region, 50 km (31,25 miles) south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia ...

The lawmaker proposed a new siege of Leningrad, in which over one million people died New EU sanctions on Russia should so ...

MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A fire at a factory in Russia's Leningrad region that produces acetone has been put out, local officials said on Friday. Local investigators said in a statement that the ...