Istoriceskaja Ekspertiza. The Historical Expertise Nr. 3 (36) 2023

"Historical Expertise" is a professional journal of the Russian historical community in Russia and abroad. The first issue was published in 2014. Since 2015 four issues have been published annually. After the Putin¿s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 the journal was relocated to Moldova. Each issue has 300+ pages. The editorial board and editorial council include prominent historians from Russia, Moldova, Europe and the USA. All articles are peer-reviewed.

The main subject of the journal is memory studies: ¿Global memory¿, "Problems of national memory of foreign countries", "Memory of trauma", "Historical politics", "How it really was". The journal has regularly published translations of articles and interviews with leading foreign researchers in the field of memory. Much attention is paid to reviewing historical literature. Each issue contains 10-15 reviews. There are also materials devoted to the experience of outstanding historians (the rubric "Time of a Historian"), social problems of historical corporation ("Social Problems of Science" and "Problems of Self-Organisation of Science").

K. A. PAKHALYUK International and Transnational Perspectives in the Space of the Current History of Ancient Russian Cities

Maria Cristina Galmarini : ¿Life had brought me to Russia and the experiences I had there, especially the personal connection, kept me tied to it¿

Karl Schlögel: ¿The dissolution of the Soviet empire is entirely new and demands new approaches and probably answers¿

CATRIONA KELLY ¿Encyclopaedia of [Lost] Russian Life.¿ Rev.: Karl Schlögel, The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Oxford and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023).

V. S. GRUZDINSKAYA, «This is an Unusually Long and Arduous Journey.»

A. S. STYKALIN The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Viewed by a Moscow Historian

A. K. ALEKSANDROVA Disaster Diplomacy: The Influence of the 1999 and 2023 Earthquakes on Greek-Turkish Relations

B. L. KHAVKIN Soviet Intelligence in the Battle of Kursk. Rudolf Rößler Dmitri Stratievski: «The Battle of Kursk: German historians prioritize not a single battle, but the year that

became a turning point in the war»

K. YU. ERUSALIMSKIY Mr. President Vladimir Putin¿s Preposterous Antinormanism

M. N. KOPITSA Colonial plots on the pages of Russian history textbooks

Alla Morozova: «The condition for membership in our Association is that a person has a clearly expressed anti-war position»

Vasily Zharkov: ¿Living in disaster mode¿

Victoria Musvik: ¿I see a community that artificially isolated itself, much in accordance the same imperialhierarchical model that it struggles with¿

M. G. PAVLOVETS Saving Private R¿ector from a Life Sentence. Response to Vasily Zharkov¿s interview

V. A. SCHNIRELMAN Higher education in the United States and Attitudes towards Minorities

S. E. EHRLICH ¿Internal Emigration¿ without Collaborationism. Watching the Russian Professors through the Keyhole of Social Networks during the ¿Special Military Operation¿