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 ...

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

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 ...

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 siege began on 8 September 1941. The blockade became one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history. Historians have classified it as a ...genocide due to the systematic starvation and ...