An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.

On January 8, 2026, in Leningrad, Russia, a dashcam video captured an unexpected road accident on the Pikalevo bypass. In the ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad. The story of this devastating World War II blockade is mostly unknown abroad, but the 900-day seige of Russia's Northern ...

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 ...

Semyon Bychkov will succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Paris Opera starting in August 2028, the company's ...

In his enthralling “The Spy in the Archive,” Gordon Corera tells the story of an unlikely hero embedded within the heart of ...

900 days. Over a million dead. And not one surrender. The Siege of Leningrad was the deadliest siege in human history - where civilians ate glue, sawdust, and each other just to survive. German forces ...

Like thousands of people since Russia launched its military offensive in February 2022, she has been charged with "discrediting" the armed forces. On Friday a court in Saint Petersburg -- once ...

A baby sucking blood rather than milk from its mother; a human leg found in a worker's locker; children ending up stooped and hairy. These are scenes that would be at home in the fertile mind of a ...

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 ...

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Simon Parkin Scribner (2024) After Simon Parkin’s account of the siege of Leningrad and the fate of the world’s ...

MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A fire at a factory in Russia's Leningrad region that produces acetone has been put out, local officials said on Friday. Local investigators said in a statement that the ...