I recently met Russian Holocaust survivor Rita Davidova at a pre-High Holiday dinner in Aventura organized by Moran Alfasi, ...

One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...

Russia is rapidly bolstering its military presence following the establishment of the Leningrad Military District, with speculations rife that these forces could be deployed for a potential conflict ...

Builders have begun to reinforce the lower part of the foundation for the reactor building for unit 8 at Russia’s Leningrad ...

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum ...

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. A St. Petersburg Prosecutor has filed a lawsuit to recognize the siege of Leningrad as a war crime and genocide of the Soviet people, the press service of the Russian ...

The skies will be mostly cloudy. The high will be 35°. Good air quality (0-50) Primary pollutant PM2.5 8.0 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard ...

In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was aided by a ruthless private army that was deeply loyal to him—until it wasn’t.

We spend most of the hour with Simon Parkin, author of "The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and their Impossible Choice." The book tells the extraordinary and true story of the ...