Russia celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the second world war on May 9. But while the cameras will ...

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian education system has cranked the patriotic themes into overdrive, seeking to mold the soldiers of tomorrow.

"History is the life of nations and of humanity," In War and Peace, the great writer Leo Tolstoy observed. This year marks ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, formally handed over power ...

History is a mirror, and only by drawing lessons from history can the world avoid repeating past calamities. BEIJING | Xinhua ...

A number of historians have argued that World War II was a phase of one long war lasting from 1914 to 1945 or even until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991—a global civil war, first between ...

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

(AP Photo/Roman Kutukov) MOSCOW (AP) — When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova ...

The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a deep scar in the national psyche. Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet ...

MOSCOW: Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China-Russia relations have grown more confident, stable 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 ...