Medvedev Creates History Commission
Archived Articles | 20 May 2009  | EWR OnlineEWR
Andrew Osborn, WSJ Europe

MOSCOW—President Dmitry Medvedev has created a special commission to counter what he says are increasingly aggressive attempts to rewrite history to Russia's disadvantage. Supporters said the commission is needed to tackle anti-Russian propaganda in the former Soviet Union, an area Moscow regards as its backyard, but liberal historians called the initiative a return to Soviet-era controls.

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