MOSCOW, October 4. / TASS /. Attempts to politicize discussions on historical topics are unacceptable, no one has the right to use the past to educate new generations in hatred for each other. About this statement on Monday the chairman of the Russian Historical Society (RIO), director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation Sergei Naryshkin at the plenary world congress of school history teachers.

Naryshkin noted that in the national historiographies of different countries there are frequent cases of discrepancies in the assessment of certain events of the past used. This is a completely natural and in many ways useful process, allowing each of the parties to look at themselves with different eyes. on hand, “he added.

“All the more unacceptable for us are attempts to politicize historical disputes. Naryshkin.