At the finish of last week, it seemed that SMO had already ended and it was time to glue the fragments of "one people" ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the fifth week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo ...

Czech Senator Miroslava Nemcova has sparked controversy after suggesting that EU sanctions on Russia should be so severe that they lead to a situatio ...

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

Ukraine says it struck a major oil refinery in the Volograd region as part of its drive to target Russian infrastructure tied ...

The lawmaker proposed a new siege of Leningrad in which over one million people died New EU sanctions on Russia should so strict as to br ...

Every day brings a message about new grandiose plans of a completely distraught Europe, led not just by amateurs, but also by war criminals.

Fireworks illuminated the evening sky in Russia, marking 80 years since the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Spectacular footage shows a colorful pyrotechnics display ignited over St Petersburg on ...

The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan. 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over ...

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

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin, third right, attends a wreath laying commemoration ceremony at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery ...