Wanting to stretch my legs after the ... of the Soviet Union: in particular, the despatches sent by Alexander Werth from Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad, during World War II.

Efremova, now 101, was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 ... Some fought in the Far East after Germany’s surrender, in final battles against Japan.

Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union scored ... invaders in World War II, one that some ...