A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

Yet when victory was formally declared in Moscow on 9 th May 75 years ago ... Often using their own people as slave labour, the Soviets made most of their own weapons, and their tanks were superior to ...

The Americans, it was clear, would use them in defence of Western Europe in the face of a Soviet invasion – a step Joseph Stalin never ... around Moscow, in existence. This was subsequently reduced to ...

Louis XV and Louis XVI Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The sprawling grounds of France’s opulent Palace of Versailles are not only a masterpiece of landscaping, but a mark of 17th-century ...

The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has died following a bombing in central Moscow, according to Russian ...

The crowning attraction of Rhodes Town, the Palace of the Grand Master is usually the first stop for tourists. Its medieval architecture sparks the imagination of children and adults alike.

the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin pushed to demonstrate its technical prowess to the rest of the world, particularly in the air, where the Soviets established a number of endurance records for ...

An east Ukrainian crime boss and separatist wanted by Kyiv was killed with one other person in a blast at a luxury residential complex in Moscow on Monday, Russian media reported. Armen Sarkisian ...

Three potential scenarios for U.S.-Greenland relations are being debated in Moscow in terms of the strategic implications for Russia. The primary scenario is the maintenance of the status quo.