At 93, Red Army veteran searches for lost French love

“Her name was Jeanne…. A brunette, nothing special. But I must find her at any cost.”

“Her name was Jeanne…. A brunette, nothing special. But I must find her at any cost.”

A Soviet soldier from Uzbekistan who went missing in 1980 while serving in the Red Army during the war in Afghanistan has turned up living in the west of the country over three decades later.

The city of Volgograd was renamed Stalingrad for a day on Saturday as Russia marked the 70th anniversary of a brutal battle in which the Red Army defeated Nazi forces and changed the course of World War II.