Russian pseudo-historian and provocateur Aleksandr Dyukov held the 3rd International School of Historical and Publicist Mastery in Minsk on 1 December. The event, titled “From a Shared Past to a Coherent History: Integrating Public Historical Narratives in the Post-Soviet Space”, took place at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
The main organisers of the School were the Russian Historical Memory Foundation, founded and headed by Dyukov, and the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Co-organisers included the National Centre for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation, the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Axon Information and Consulting Centre, and the Eurasian Guild of Historians.
A grant for the event was awarded for the third consecutive year by the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS Member States.
At the plenary session, participants discussed issues related to the historical foundations of the ideology of the Belarusian state, policies concerning the commemoration of victims of the Nazi genocide, and cooperation among scholars in the field of humanitarian research.
Dyukov is known for orchestrating a campaign to discredit Belarusian national heroes.