In the early days of World War II, 1939 to 1940, the Nazi German war machine advanced across eastern Europe, until its soldiers stood on the outskirts of Moscow, deep into the Soviet Union, poised and ...

The Battle of Rzhev, a small town in northwestern Russia, was not a victory for the Red Army. However, it laid the foundation for the decisive victories at Stalingrad and the Kursk Salient. When in ...

The Germans are losing the war in Russia, which means that they are losing World War II. On the frozen plains of Rzhev before Moscow, on the Don and in the Volga corridor at Stalingrad, in the snows ...

RZHEV, 30 June (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko together with Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the ceremony to unveil the Rzhev Monument to the Soviet Soldier, BelTA has ...

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers what remains of one of the upper Volga’s most charming historic towns. Rzhev. Cathedral of the Okovetsky Icon of the Virgin. North facade ...

RZHEV, 30 June (BelTA) - The opening of the Rzhev Monument to the Soviet Soldier, which took place with the participation of presidents of Belarus and Russia Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin on ...

In torment Russia lashed out on the Moscow front like a wounded giant beating a beast that gnaws his vitals. Stalingrad’s peril was so great that distraction was necessary. For the desperate offensive ...