MOSCOW. Aug 31 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow is being provocatively portrayed as the perpetrator of the events and tragedies of World War II, presidential chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin said on Friday.
"While professing their new approach to history, revisionists are laying the main emphasis on Russia's contemporary history, on events connected with World War II. The revision of the history of World War II aims to reassess the geopolitical outcome of that war," said Naryshkin, who was appointed chairman of the presidential commission for countering attempts to falsify history damaging Russia's interests by President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday.
"Russia, as the historical successor of the Soviet Union, is being provocatively portrayed as the perpetrator of the events and tragedies of those years, in a bid to form the groundwork for laying political, financial and territorial claims on our country," he said.
"In a huge flow of information on the present-day world one gets confronted with an increasing number of instances of biased and sometimes cynical attitude to the history of our country, Europe and the world as a whole," Naryshkin said.
"Attempts are also being made to distort events and facts in other periods in the history of the Russian state, as well," he said. Therefore, the president "made the timely and important decision to form a presidential commission for countering attempts to falsify history that are damaging to Russia's interests," Naryshkin said.