On November 22, 1941, exactly 80 years ago, the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga began to operate. Right until February 1943 it remained the only transport route connecting besieged Leningrad with the rest of the country...

The International Military Tribunal started its work in Nuremberg 76 years ago. Its goal was to pass a verdict on the main war criminals of the Nazi regime. The tribunal was established in accordance with the Declaratio...

Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR. Sergey Lavrov during Government Hour at the Federation Council on December 23, 2019: We have seen, in recent...

On August 23, 1939, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, acting on behalf of the Soviet Union, signed a Treaty of Non-Aggression with Germany, also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. During the...

On January 29, 1942, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and Iran signed a Treaty of Alliance against Nazi Germany. This upset German plans for drawing Iran into the Axis and creating a new theatre of war in the Middle...

On November 22, 1941, the first lorries carrying foodstuffs drove to Leningrad across the ice of Lake Ladoga. The name the Road of Life given by Leningrad residents to the ice road across Lake Ladoga is not a poetic symb...

Under the Third Reich’s plans, the Baltic region was supposed to become part of the German Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO). The population was to be partially exterminated, moved to the east, or “Germanised....

Article of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the State of Israel A.Viktorov (Russian Foreign Ministry) "75th Anniversary of the End of World War II: historical memory and historical heritage". 75 years ago, vi...

Residents of liberated Sofia greeting Red Army soldiers. 09.09.1944 © Sputnik In the autumn of 1944, 75 years ago, the Red Army reached the borders of the German Reich; cities such as Minsk, Vilnius, and Brest h...

Operation Bagration was the D-Day of the Eastern Front. In scope, size, scale and impact, it was a remarkable feat of arms unmatched in WWII. Crucially, Overlord (D-Day) and Bagration were planned and undertaken as part...

“There are so many young women who want to become military pilots. We receive hundreds of letters [from them],” Shoigu told journalists. Therefore, we decided that this year we’ll recruit the first grou...

The speaker of the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, Valentina Matviyenko, shared those plans with UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Russian MPs...

In the autumn of 1944, 75 years ago, the Red Army reached the borders of the German Reich; cities such as Minsk, Vilnius, and Brest having been liberated in July as Soviet forces swept West. Today, the Russian Federation...