Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on 27 January 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind - the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) - ended. Its importance can ...

New reporting from The Wall Street Journal details how Igor Potapenko, the head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service for ...

The Soviet Union claimed parts of Finnish territory mainly to create a buffer against a German attack as the Finnish border ...

Russia must be forced to experience the siege of Leningrad once again. This was stated by the former chairman of the House of ...

On November 22, 1941, the Road of Life, an ice road supply route built on top of Lake Ladoga's frozen surface that saved over a million lives in the besieged city of Leningrad during World War II ...

Vladimir Putin took part in commemorative events dedicated to the 81st anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, front center, speaks during awarding WWII veterans with jubilee medals "80 years of Victory ...

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

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is a thoughtful and desperately sad account of human generosity and sacrifice. The institute played an important part in feeding the post-war world. Several high ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

For 872 days, the Nazis and their henchmen wreaked havoc near Leningrad, executing and torturing defenceless citizens, killing prisoners of war, destroying priceless monuments, looting museums and ...