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 ...

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

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

Hunger swept the city in the autumn of 1941. Rationing was introduced in Leningrad to provide residents with food. The bread rations had dwindled to 250 grams a day for workers and to 125 grams ...

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 ...

At the Leningrad Victory concert dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory and the 81st anniversary of the liberation of ...

That said, the Nuremberg trials of 1945-1946 did not provide a legal assessment of the siege of Leningrad, including the creation of conditions for hunger to engulf the city. "The abovementioned ...

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

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 ...

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 ceremonies, thematic exhibitions, ...

They relentlessly bombed the city and deliberately subjected nearly two and a half million people to starvation and extreme, unimaginable hardship. For 872 days, Leningrad had been under siege.