Russia's nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a licence valid to 2055 for the decommissioning of Leningrad Nuclear ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Speaking from the Latvian capital, Riga, on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine, citing in particular the siege of Mariupol, a port city on ...

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Hirst, creator of Vikings and The Tudors, is taking on one of the most epic and tragic events of World War II, the 872-day blockade of Leningrad. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and ...

Two strangers with very different pasts united by a common experience of siege and blockade. We met on social media during Israel’s assault on Gaza this summer. We were both grappling with the ...

Some 6,500 Holocaust survivors who lived through the siege of Leningrad, hid in Nazi-occupied France or survived persecution in Romania are newly eligible to receive pension allowances from Germany, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was Leningrad, not Stalingrad that was the Eastern Front's real World War II humanitarian disaster. Nazi Germany sent hundreds of thousands of civilians to their deaths through starvation and ...

Russia on Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, from Nazi occupation. Leningrad is the only city in the world history with a multimillion ...