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

The people of Leningrad and the soldiers of the Red Army ... widely known for his links to the German invaders during World War II. Bandera's Nazi affiliation is also confirmed by declassified ...

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 ...

Some of Meena’s art pieces at the Russian Centre—composed out of watercolours and Russian ink—were paintings of the Monument To Heroic Defenders Of Leningrad, a mother-daughter pair sitting on shelled ...

I spent 900 days in Leningrad under siege. The war had started only two and a half months previously but fascist troops had already entered the Leningrad Region. The Germans did not so much ...

Little-known music pieces composed in Leningrad during the 900-days siege ... one of the milestone events of World War II, a news conference was told Wednesday. The idea to track down the long ...

The building for the panorama has been built near the Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad diorama that was created in 1985 by the painters who had fought in the frontlines of World War II forty ...

Putin was born and raised in Leningrad, and his World War II veteran father suffered wounds while fighting for the city. Blockade survivor Irina Zimneva, 85, told The Associated Press that she’s ...

But in Russia today there is a discernible shift in focus, away from the Holocaust to how the Soviet people as a whole, including Russian people, suffered in World War Two. More than 27 million Soviet ...

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 ...