In 1944, the Soviet army lifted the Siege of Leningrad, a more than 2-year occupation ... a Continental airlines turboprop commuter plane crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 ...

“Soviets are the officials,” Ms. Massie told ... aid to Afghan militias fighting a Soviet occupation, and the White House was still demanding answers from Moscow over the downing of a Korean ...

Brodsky’s fascination with Venice was colored by his childhood in St. Petersburg (then named Leningrad), another ... in 1972, the Soviets booted him from the country with little more than ...

Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can trace their roots back to the Russian military, which brought them here as conscripts. Beginning in the 1850’s, Jews, who now constitute a tiny ...

In the end, a Peace Treaty was agreed which saw the end of the invasion, although Finland gave up 9 per cent of its land as the Soviets were desperate to protect nearby Leningrad ... the couple moved ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.

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 ...

When the Soviets entered the camp, however, much of the physical evidence remained. “When they arrived at the barracks where the bags full of hair were stored, they understood that these were ...

The gate reading in German "Arbeit Macht Frei" meaning, "Work Makes You Free" is seen near the entrance to the former German Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz I in Oswiecim, Poland. On January 27 ...

Russia must be forced to experience the siege of Leningrad once again. This was stated by the former chairman of the House of Parliament and Senator of the Czech Republic Miroslava Nemtsova. "Russia ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland was liberated by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. Eighty years later, only a few of its survivors remain. At nearly 100 years old, Ginette ...