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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Russian kindergartens made children reenact the Siege of Leningrad anniversary with activities like lining up for black bread ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s promise to go all in on fossil fuels includes praise for coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline. Trump this ...

Forty-eight Uyghurs detained in Thailand for almost 11 years are on hunger strike to protest against imminent deportation to China, where they face imprisonment or execution. They were caught by ...

The good news is that solving hunger seems scientifically tractable, given the inventive research happening across the globe. The less palatable news is that it is unlikely to be a gentle stroll ...