Russia this week remembered the 75th anniversary of the end of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, present day St. Petersburg. You should remember the siege also. Our present challenges with Russian ...

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during World War II. Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk, or move unassisted, ...

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 ...

I recently met Russian Holocaust survivor Rita Davidova at a pre-High Holiday dinner in Aventura organized by Moran Alfasi, Founder and Executive Director of Holocaust Heroes Worldwide. Rita’s ...

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Operation Barbarossa didn’t just target territory—it set the stage for the 800-day Siege of Leningrad, where starvation and mass death rewired a city’s sense of survival. Through the Putin family’s lo ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been prosecuted for calling for peace in Ukraine and says she feels "hurt" over what ...

MINSK, 30 July (BelTA) - The exhibition "The Siege. Ration Cards", commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, has opened at the National Library of Belarus in Minsk, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Russian ...

THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD BY GERMAN AND FINNISH ARMIES DURING World War II was one of the most horrific events in world history. According to the most recent and reliable estimate, fighting in the ...