Natalia Narochnitskaya

Ali Sarwar Naqvi

Ti Lan-An Nguyen

Vyacheslav Nikonov

Tatiana Nosenko

Alexander Nikitin

Dejan Novakovic

James Nixey

Wolfgang Nowak

Hovhannes Nikoghosyan

Natalia Narochnitskaya

Russian Federation

Chairman, European Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris; President, Foundation for Historical Outlook in Moscow.

Previous positions: worked at the Secretariat-General of the United Nations in New York (1982–1989); Member, Deputy Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the Commission on Study of the Practice and Implementation of Human Rights and Civil Liberties, State Duma of the Russian Federation (2003–2007); Deputy Head, Russian delegation to PACE (2003–2007).

Research interests: philosophy of history; Russian history; world history; international relations and international law; geopolitics, social consciousness.

Selected publications: Russia and Russians in World History; Great wars of the XX century; For what and who we were fighting.

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Does Russia Need a Law against Falsifying History?

The State Duma has received a bill stipulating fines and prison terms for denying or justifying Nazi crimes and criminals, or for condemning the outcome of the Nuremberg Trials. Some historians fear this would make it difficult to draw objective conclusions on the events of World War II. Supporters of the bill emphasize that it may help combat attempts to rewrite history.

12.07.2013

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Emotions of Bolotnaya Square Are Different From Other Protests in Russia

The liberal, Western-oriented camp that calls itself the “non-systemic” opposition is concentrated in Moscow and is very small on a national scale. However, this is the only opposition that is noticed by the West and as a result they will probably grow even more hysterical in their hatred of the Russian government. The same concerns NGOs with foreign aid.

08.05.2013

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Vladimir Putin Discussed Russia's Foreign Policy With Valdai Club Experts

“Putin did not hesitate to say that if America continues pursuing its missile defense plans in Europe, serious conflicts may arise in bilateral relations, but Russia is not afraid of this”

17.11.2011

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“Frozen Conflicts” in Post-Soviet States and the Future of the Transnistria Conflict

The recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia has given Transnistria hope that, sooner or later, it will be able to exercise its rights and aspirations to sovereignty as well. Transnistria had no part in the plight of Bessarabia. It had always been part of Russian territory, and that did not change when the Russian Empire became the Soviet Union.

25.07.2011

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