Nikolai Koposov

Nikolai Koposov is a doctor of philosophical sciences and director of research of the Helsinki-Collegium of Helsinki University.

Does Russia need a memory law?

Russia’s Duma has been trying to draft a ‘memory law’, in order to protect the Soviet version of the events of World War II from revisionist interpretations. The historian Nikolai Koposov deconstructs the attempts so far. His view is that the proposed law is not only misconceived, but would be unw

By Nikolai Koposov

/ 16 Jun 2010