ST. PETERSBURG. Jan 29 (Interfax) - Russia will not allow Nazi crimes to be reassessed in international law, the country's President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.
"We will make sure the assessment of such crimes is unshakeable within the system of international law," Putin said at a concert marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the fascist siege.
The siege of Leningrad is a horrible example of the massacre of Soviet citizens, in which more than a million people in the city died of hunger and disease, he said.
"That is just part of the atrocities inflicted on our people by Nazis and by those who served them. They became complicit in clearing the so-called living space for the so-called master race," Putin said.
"Their actions towards the multiethnic Soviet people fully meet the definition of genocide accepted everywhere in the world," he said.