Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on 27 January 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind - the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) - ended. Its importance ...

The three million inhabitants of Leningrad (now renamed St Petersburg) suffered extremes of starvation and deprivation.

Overall, during the blockade, the Nazi invaders and their ... of 1945-1946 did not provide a legal assessment of the siege of Leningrad, including the creation of conditions for hunger to engulf ...