August 2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Arctic Convoy program, which ran between August 1941 and May 1945 and played a crucial role in supplying the besieged USSR with the necessary means to continue the fight against Nazi Germany.

Princess Anne, who is a member of the International Olympic Committee that banned Russian athletes from this years Olympics

Princess Anne is the member of the Royal Family who has visited Russia and the USSR the greatest number of times. The Princess made the first official visit by any British royal to the USSR in May 1990, when she met President Mikhail Gorbachev and placed a wreath by the monument to Soviet casualties of the battle of Stalingrad.

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