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This clearly is a departure from Putin who personally influenced the decision to seize the materials for Orlando Figes’ book “The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia”. In a wider historiographical context however, this is a brave move to be applauded. Ukraine for example has long been left waiting for an official admittance of culpability for the Holodomor, and this brave move by Medvedev may inspire a more self-critical national approach to history. In Europe today, the manipulation of history is still a widespread crime: Turkey still refuses to admit the Armenian genocide for which it was responsible for example, and any moves of historical honesty are to be applauded.