A new report reveals that Russia is channeling children into military drone development by disguising it as education, using ...

May 8, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- This year's Victory Day celebrations on May 9 in Russia and the former Soviet Union will have a particular poignancy.

World ‘Our real Victory Day’: Ukrainians shun Soviet WWII anniversary. The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory summarised the trend in blunter terms: “We defeated the Nazis — we will ...

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 ...

Victory Day, celebrated on May 9, is Russia’s most important secular holiday, ... The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45.

But each May 9, known throughout the former Soviet Union, as well as among the Russian-speaking residents of Berlin and beyond as “Victory Day,” its complicated, compromised relationship to ...

Soviet World War II victory flags are appearing Ukrainian areas Russia has seized, CNN reported. Russia is preparing for its May 9 "Victory Day" — the anniversary of Nazis' World War II surrender.

MOSCOW (AP) — When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova couldn’t believe the devastating war was over.