Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two with a major military ...

(Stalin wanted to downplay the significance of the victory in World War II, seeing potential political rivals in the Soviet generals who had helped defeat Germany.) Image A photo released by ...

Russia marks on Friday the 80th anniversary of the Soviet and allied victory over Nazi Germany, though there are fears that ...

In Moscow, the Russian word for 'Victory' - 'Pobeda' – is everywhere: on giant billboards, on posters in shop windows, even ...

May 9, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and ...

Hardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, for which the victory over ...

As World War II fades from living memory, its place in the German collective consciousness is as complicated as ever.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of the Soviet Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat ...

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