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

to protect a collection for which the whole raison d’être was to one day save humanity from starvation. While, just around the corner, Leningrad’s Hermitage art museum’s two million ...

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 ...

Some of Meena’s art pieces at the Russian Centre—composed out of watercolours and Russian ink—were paintings of the Monument ...

On 26 January 1943, Vavilov died in a prison hospital, officially of ‘bronchial pneumonia’, but actually of starvation. The previous week, the Red Army had attacked the German position east of ...

Medvedev's comments followed a fake social media post falsely attributing to the Czech Senator a call for a Leningrad blockade.

Begging for an end to what is tantamount to a starvation tactic, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred in a speech to the historic tragedy of the Siege of Leningrad. During World War II ...

The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President ...

The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade ... 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 people from starvation and bombings. More than 3,000 buildings were destroyed.