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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a licence valid to 2055 for the decommissioning of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant's first unit, which aims to set a template for such work on an RBMK ...

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, ...

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 ...

BERLIN -- The Nazi High Command reported in a special communique today that the encirclement of Leningrad has been completed. The High Command's statement was contained in a special communique from ...

During the days I was reading this book I ate comparitively little. It quelled the appetite. Starvation on such a scale makes one feel almost guilty for having enough and to spare. The German siege of ...

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 ...