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

Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in solemn commemorative events in St. Petersburg to mark the 81st anniversary ...

Its importance can be measured only by the feelings of survivors in the exhausted yet heroic ... of Leningrad was of great historical significance. For almost three years, the defenders of the ...

The president also laid a wreath at the Motherland monument. Piskaryovskoye Memorial ... where about half a million residents and defenders of Leningrad were buried during the siege.