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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin bows to honor the memory after laying flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary ...

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 ...