The Japanese government said it would continue seeking the monument’s dismantling and had already conveyed demands to Moscow even before the monument was opened. The monument in Khabarovsk depicts a bronze Soviet soldier smashing a border post topped with a chrysanthemum — the symbol of the Japanese imperial house.

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At the beginning of July, historian Konstantin Pakhalyuk’s book «In Search of »Russian Antiquity«» was included in the longlist for the «Provetitel» prize. With the kind permission of the publisher Chișinău: The Historical Expertise, which republished the book after its de facto ban in Russia, we are publishing the chapter «State Memory Policy in the Conditions of the ‘Conservative Turn’ (2012 — early 2022)», which explains why cynical Russian politicians and bureaucrats needed events from long ago.

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