News about World War II
How many World War II veterans remain in Kazakhstan
Tengrinews.kz – The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has revealed how many World War II veterans currently live in Kazakhstan.
29 July 2025 10:19
Trump again claims US victory in World War II
Tengrinews.kz – U.S. President Donald Trump once again stated that the United States won World War II and called for recognition that Russia
10 June 2025 10:37
101-year-old WWII sniper veteran passed away in Pavlodar
Tengrinews.kz - Maria Kurbatova, a veteran sniper of the Great Patriotic War and participant in the liberation of Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia,
15 May 2025 16:56
103-year-old WWII veteran Valentina Volkodav passed away in Petropavlovsk
Tengrinews.kz - Valentina Volkodav, a World War II veteran who marched from the Volga to Berlin and left behind a legacy of courage and strength,
06 May 2025 17:17
‘The Germans wanted to capture Uralsk’: Little-known facts about Kazakhstan during World War II
Tengrinews.kz - Kazakhstan made a significant contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War, but many pages of the wartime history
22 April 2025 14:46
WWII-era submachine gun handed over to police in Kostanay
Tengrinews.kz - A resident of Kostanay has turned in a 1941-model submachine gun to local police, citing Alau.
22 April 2025 10:51
The last heroes: how many WWII veterans live in Kazakhstan
Tengrinews.kz – The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Kazakhstan has revealed how many veterans of the Great Patriotic War currently
16 April 2025 12:35
How many WWII veterans live in Kazakhstan
Tengrinews.kz - The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Kazakhstan has provided information on the number of World War II veterans living
24 January 2025 09:52
Kazakh President Nazarbayev attends military parade in China
President of Kazakhstan has visited the military parade in Beijing in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Victory.
04 September 2015 19:30
Tale of two parades as ordinary Chinese barred from display
It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows: as 12,000 troops and hundreds of tanks and missiles rolled through Tiananmen Square in front of invited guests and foreign leaders.
03 September 2015 15:01
Japan PM expresses WWII remorse, but not enough for victims
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed deep remorse Friday over World War II and said previous national apologies would stand.
15 August 2015 13:05
'Children of the aggressor': the Japanese war babies adopted by China
Now 73 and sitting in his Tokyo home, Yohachi Nakajima fights back tears when he thinks of his Chinese adopted mother and the farming village he once called homeю
12 August 2015 16:24
Draft of Japan PM's WWII statement includes 'apology': report
A draft of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II includes the word "apology".
10 August 2015 13:20
Pentagon still searching for its lost WWII veterans
Long dead but little forgotten, US soldiers who disappeared across the globe during World War II are being reunited with their loved ones in a dogged push to find and bring home their bodies.
10 August 2015 12:20
'English Schindler' Nicholas Winton dies aged 106
Nicholas Winton, a Briton who saved hundreds of Jewish children in Prague from the Nazis in the run-up to World War II, has died at the age of 106.
02 July 2015 12:02
Atyrau International Airport to be named after legendary Kazakh female war pilot Dospanova
The Atyrau International Airport will be named after the legendary Kazakh pilot Khiuaz Dospanova who participated in the Great Patriotic War (WWII).
14 May 2015 13:46
Putin defends notorious Nazi-Soviet pact
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the infamous pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
11 May 2015 12:36
Queen Elizabeth marks WWII anniversary at London service
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attended a thanksgiving service at London's Westminster Abbey on the final day of commemorations.
11 May 2015 12:11
Attempts to distort history of World War II are unacceptable: Nazarbayev
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev criticized attempts of certain politicians and countries to rewrite the history of the World War II and emphasized the necessity to preserve the truth about those years.
11 May 2015 04:51
Kazakhstan celebrates 70th anniversary of Victory
Today Kazakhstan celebrates one of the most important holidays – the Victory Day, which commemorates the end of the Great Patriotic War, as the WWII is known in the former Soviet states, and the win of the Soviet Union over the Nazi Germany.
10 May 2015 01:28