Great to see another medal reach its hero! Arctic Convoys veteran Edgar Foyle with his «75th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War». Congratulations and thank you for the peaceful sky!

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...

Victory day celebrations in Riga, Latvia © Sputnik / Sergey Melkonov The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed Latvia’s new legislation banning Soviet Army uniforms from being worn during public events, calling...

As Russians celebrate Victory Day, George Galloway argues for a return to the spirit that won the war. On May 9, 1945, Hitler's fascism was finally crushed amongst the rubble of Berlin and the "thousand-year Reich" came...

Legislating to establish an ‘official’ view of history is seldom a good idea. History is a matter of living debate, study and interpretation, not written in the wooden language of the solemn edict, which only...

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...

Knowledge of the Holocaust is lacking in Europe, according to a CNN/ComRes survey which found that a third of Europeans polled admitted they knew little or nothing about the genocide committed by Adolf Hitler. One in 20...

A US-made collectable coin lists Britain and France among the honored US allies in WWII, but, strangely, the Soviet Union, whose Red Army delivered a crushing blow to the Nazis in Europe and fought Japan, is omitted. The...

Information warfare has been deployed against Russia since imperial times so one can expect the WWII anniversary in September to be used to blame Moscow for starting the war, a senior Russian official said. Sergey Ivanov...

“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...

Troops and heavy armor paraded through the iconic Palace Square in St. Petersburg to mark 75 years since the end of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Despite...

A reconnaissance troop of the Waffen SS in the southern sector of the Eastern front. © Global Look Press / Scherl Seventy-four years after the fall of the Third Reich, the German government is still paying foreign...

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...

Exactly 80 years ago, in the early hours of August 24, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact in Moscow. The news came as a bolt fromthe blue. Thousands of Soviet people wrote letters to cent...