Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has suddenly stated that representatives of "many European countries" took part in the Siege of Leningrad during World War II. Source: Putin during events marking the ...

St Petersburg has been marking the 80th anniversary of its complete liberation from the Nazis and the end of one of the most brutal sieges in history. The Nazi siege of Leningrad lasted nearly two-and ...

The Siege of Leningrad began seventy years ago this month. While relatively little known in the West, the event remains one of the lingering memories of the war for Russia -- click here to see the ...

On January 17, just days before the announcement that the German government would once again send battle tanks to wage war against Russia, the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum commemorated the World War II ...

Shortly before that, Putin laid flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen monument on Nevsky Prospekt in the Leningrad Region.

Whether the exiled Georgy Malenkov will be allowed to manage his dam for long is something that perhaps even Nikita Khrushchev does not know at the moment. But just in case Malenkov must be done away ...

A boy places flowers to a memorial plate dedicated to the Leningrad Siege in St.Petersburg on Friday, marking the 75th anniversary since the end of the Nazi German and Finnish Siege of Leningrad. The ...

Construction work has begun on the outer containment building for the third new unit at the Leningrad nuclear power plant, which will be the seventh in total. Work is taking place on both containment ...

Citizens of Leningrad, during the German seige of 1942, dig up water from a broken main (AP) The Siege of Leningrad, the pitiless epic of the Nazis’ 900-day encirclement of the Soviet Union’s second ...