Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s nothing like the siege of Leningrad to put our current woes (and winter) into perspective.

So began the longest blockade in recorded human history. By the most conservative estimates, the siege of Leningrad would claim the lives of approximately three quarters of a million people ...

Begging for an end to what is tantamount to a starvation tactic, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred in a speech to the historic tragedy of the Siege of Leningrad. During World War II ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the events in St Petersburg devoted to the 75th anniversary since the breakup of the Siege of Leningrad in 1943, the Kremlin press ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War ...

Ceremonies have taken place in St Petersburg to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the deadly and gruelling World War Two siege of Leningrad, as the Russian city was then known. Honour guards ...

Estimates of the death toll vary, but historians agree that more than 1 million Leningrad residents perished from hunger, or air and artillery bombardments, during the siege. Putin was born and ...