History of Russia: The project of a single history book discussed in Moscow

The meeting of the Council of the Russian Historical Society, chaired by the Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin took place on October 30, 2013 at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

The meeting summed up the work on a new educational -methodical complex on the country’s history and was approved by the concept.

The emergence of the concept was preceded by a broad public discussion. “For several months, there was a discussion, and we managed to get on common, agreed language for a variety of complex issues of our country’s history, there were engaged representatives of the educational community, teachers, parents, researchers”, - said Sergey Naryshkin.

Over the last twenty years, were appeared a lot of archival documents - books will be supplemented by the data. Advantages of the new concept, according to academics, are that it was managed to avoid conflicting assessments of the same events. Now, this concept will be given to the President of Russia, and then start searching for authors who write school books on its basis.