Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, third right, attends a wreath laying commemoration ceremony at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery ...

The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia's St. Petersburg commemorated the 81st anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad on Monday with a series of solemn events, including flower-laying ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying commemoration ceremony at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where most of the Leningrad Siege victims were buried, marking the 81st anniversary ...

Russian kindergartens made children reenact the Siege of Leningrad anniversary with activities like lining up for black bread ...

Russia must be forced to experience the siege of Leningrad once again. This was stated by the former chairman of the House of ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...