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Probe Launched Against Self-Exiled Russian Historian


Russian historian Tamara Eidelman
Russian historian Tamara Eidelman

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office said on June 28 that a probe was launched against self-exiled Russian historian Tamara Eidelman on a charge of "rehabilitating Nazism." According to the Prosecutor's Office, the charge stems from Eidelman's words in one of her online lectures on YouTube about Victory Day "offending the memory of the Fatherland's defenders." The 64-year-old left Russia after Moscow launched its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In September 2022, Russian authorities added her to the registry of "foreign agents" and have fined her in absentia several times since then for failing to carry out the requirements of a "foreign agent." To read the original story by Current Time, click here.

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