Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday praised Saint Petersburg’s “unbroken” spirit as Russia marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the World War II siege of Leningrad, which claimed ...

In a January 18 meeting with World War II veterans and Leningrad siege survivors, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine to stop the ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tamara Chernykh, 81, a survivor of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II, looks at her photo album in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Russian city of St Petersburg has marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War siege by Nazi forces with a large military parade in the city's Palace Square. The siege of the ...

Berezin, born in Siberia in 1929, survived the blockade of Leningrad by the Germans and the Holocaust during World War II. In 1941, as the Wehrmacht advanced on the Soviet city, he was evacuated ...

Russia wrapped itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, as President Vladimir Putin celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II by hailing his forces in Ukraine and blasting the ...

Russia on Thursday wrapped itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, a celebration of its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II that President Vladimir Putin has turned into a pillar of his ...

Hardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, ... end of World War II with the ... the 2 1/2-year Nazi siege of his home of Leningrad, ...

SOCHI, Russia — The pageant of Russian history presented in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies passed over the Soviet victory in World War II to the consternation of more than a few patriots. But ...

“The war will be over one day and that’s when we’ll be held to account,” Dr Nikolai Ivanov, the 39-year-old botanist who led the group, told his colleagues. “They’ll ask what right we ...