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Электронное приложение к журналу «Международная жизнь»
sons of the history of international relations in Europe.
From the very beginning, Russian diplomacy had to address the problem of Russian sub-
jects who found themselves in the countries at war with Russia. There were 40 thousand
of them in Germany alone who should be returned to Russia.
We want the public to know as much as possible about our documents first, because in
this way people learn more about history; second, because documentary publications are
the most efficient weapon of struggle against all sorts of speculations and manipulation
with facts.
Every year, tens of Russian and foreign historians work in our archives. So far, we have no
space for those who want to work with archival documents: the building of the Archives
of the Foreign Policy of Russia and the reading room are being renovated. I do hope that
next year we will open the doors to Russian historians and their foreign colleagues.