Fireworks illuminated the evening sky in Russia, marking 80 years since the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Spectacular footage shows a colorful pyrotechnics display ignited over St Petersburg on7.

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 ...

while marking the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. Word in the background reads "Victory".

The head of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, said that on the morning of February 9, a "man-made incident" occurred in the port of Ust-Luga on the Koala tanker during the engine start, as a ...

In January, Ukraine’s security services attacked the Ust-Luga fuel terminal with long-range drones which it said Russia uses to export oil and gas using its “shadow fleet.” Finland, which is across ...

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 ...

Governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko said on Telegram: "On the morning of February 9, in the port of Ust-Luga, a man-made incident occurred on the tanker Koala during engine start ...

(250128) -- ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 28, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Flowers are laid to mourn the victims who died during the Siege of Leningrad at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan ...

A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says that Moscow demands that Germany pay compensation to all survivors of the Siege of Leningrad in World War II, and not just a few of them. Afghan Voice ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin stands after laying flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument to mark the ...