the subject of a decades-long territorial dispute between Russia and Japan that has prevented them from signing a peace treaty at the end of World War II. Soviet troops captured the islands, known in ...

Gera was occupied by Soviet forces after World War II and still has a pro-Russian contingent ... who keeps a prayer book in her backpack, one of the few items the family brought from Ukraine.

Several Russian tanks adorned with Soviet-era red victory flags were destroyed by Ukrainian drones in Kursk, adding to ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority ... with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an ...

The memorial in St Petersburg to 'Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi Genocide' On the edge of St Petersburg stands a dramatic memorial more than 40 metres high. At the very top is the ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown ...

Yet this is not a Holocaust memorial as such. Its official title is "the memorial to Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi genocide". I listen to a tour guide as she tells a group of ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending ... marking the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of ...

Back in the USSR: Putin Revives Soviet-Era 'Eurovision' With New Allies By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the ...