Nordic countries Finland, Estonia and Latvia with capitals Helsinki, Tallinn and Riga, and seaway from Baltic Sea to Saint Petersburg, Russia. lake ladoga stock illustrations Gulf of Finland and Gulf ...

Around 100,000 Leningraders died in each of the first three months of 1942, the death rate only beginning to fall off when there were fewer mouths left to feed and supplies started coming in across ...

The siege of Leningrad was the most drawn-out and brutal military blockade ever. At stake was the Motherland's survival and as usual civilians paid the highest price ...

People's Artist Vyacheslav Gordeev stages Swan Lake for its performance in Vietnam. Photo: T. Le More than 40 artists from the Russian State Ballet will perform the classical ballet masterpiece Swan ...

Russia's artillery strikes were bizarrely ineffective in the early stages of the war, but that's changed. Analysts say several major overhauls have helped Russia make its kill chain faster and ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The conventional wisdom is that President Donald Trump is far more critical of Ukraine’s government than he is of Russia’s while ...

President Trump on Sunday voiced disappointment in Russia while urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop shooting” and sign a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the war with Ukraine.

All Ukrainian troops have been forced from parts of Russia’s Kursk region, which Moscow lost control of last year to a surprise Ukrainian incursion, Russia’s top general said in a Kremlin ...

Photo: Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Press/Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/Reuters Russia wants the Ukrainian peace talks to fail and the U.S. to cut off aid to Ukraine and walk away. President Trump ...