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 ...

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 ...

Geographical name changes can be a result of a shift in regimes, indigenous movements, decolonisation, or political factors.

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 ...

Leningrad NPP has received a licence to operate the RBMK reactor at unit 3 until 2030. The decision to issue a licence was made after representatives of regulator Rostekhnadzor conducted a ...

Medvedev's comments followed a fake social media post falsely attributing to the Czech Senator a call for a Leningrad blockade.