In Kiev, police harassed any visitors who dared to commemorate the victims of the Nazi attack in any way other than laying ...

Building upon the legacy of Stalinist falsifications of the history of the Second World War, the Putin regime falsely ...

Vladimir Putin’s troops were accused of breaking a three-day ceasefire called to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Friday. Russia ...

How Putin Uses the USSR's Victory in World War II to Rally Support ... and regain the superpower prestige it lost when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled ...

Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II on Friday with a parade attended by China's Xi Jinping.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Friday celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, as President Vladimir Putin presided over a massive parade of tanks, missiles and troops ...

Russia will mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II. The centerpiece of the Victory Day holiday is a military parade on Moscow’s Red Square. This year, leaders from ...

The identities of Yellow Ribbon activists who live in Russian-occupied territory have been withheld for security reasons. "When my child hears about May 9 they almost scream, and so do I," an activist ...

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A look at why Victory Day is so important for Russia and Putin: The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a ...

Still Russia’s most significant secular holiday, Victory Day on May 9 honors the enormous wartime sacrifices of the Soviet Union. It also serves as a platform for the Kremlin to promote its own ...