May 9, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and ...

Victory Day, celebrated on May 9, is Russia’s most important secular holiday, reflecting its wartime sacrifice. But it’s also used by the Kremlin to bolster patriotism and regain the superpower ...

This German-army failure to defeat Soviet forces marked a crucial turning point in the war. Trump endorses budget fix that would restore Washington, DC, shortfall and urges House to pass it 464 ...

Ninth May, 2025, marked 80 years since the Soviet Red Army defeated Nazi Germany. Of all the allied powers, the Soviet Union ...

In Moscow, the Russian word for 'Victory' - 'Pobeda' – is everywhere: on giant billboards, on posters in shop windows, even stuck to the side of road-sweepers. Underground, special "victory trains" on ...

Efremova, now 101, was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. She ended up serving as a nurse in field hospitals on the front and remembers the horrors of the fighting ...

Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union ... German invaders in World War II, one that some ...

"In the West, for some time... public opinion has taken the view that the Soviet Union played a secondary role," says the Russian historian Valentin Falin. On the other hand, opinion polls show that ...

A World War II-era mystery surrounding the disappearance ... The plane was en route from Tallinn to Helsinki when it was downed by Soviet bombers on June 14, 1940 – just three months after ...

These days, we are celebrating the decisive contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory ... Crimea We will always remember that during World War II South Africa was our ally and an important ...