The "History of Russia" series. Video No. 1. Introduction (14.06.2025)

The first installment of Vitaliy Dribnytsya’s original debunking cycle (a monologue in Russian) — a review of the latest Russian multi-volume academic edition “History of Russia” (published from 2024, a project of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Historical Society, planned at 20 volumes in 29 books). It analyzes the introduction to volume 2. The author shows how the official edition, despite its declared principle of writing history within the state’s current borders, systematically draws the history of Eastern Europe (centered on Kyiv) into the history of Russia. He addresses separately the editorial board chair Sergey Naryshkin (head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service) and how the edition serves state ideology. A source for the articles “How Russia rewrites history in its textbooks” and “How ‘Rus” became ‘Russia.’”