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 ...

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.

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that "many European countries" were complicit in the Siege of Leningrad during World War II. This statement was made by Putin during the 80th ...

during the siege. Putin was born and raised in Leningrad, and his World War II veteran father suffered wounds while fighting for the city. Blockade survivor Irina Zimneva, 85, told The Associated ...