title: Conclusion
abstract: ConclusionToday the practice of Russia's politics of memory has not strayed very far from the manipulations it used in the Imperial or Soviet era.All that has changed are the methods, while the aims have stayed more or less the same in many respects, while the unintended side effect of these activities, depriving history of its character as a field of scholarship, is similar.Scholarship has never been the purpose of these manipulative operations tampering with historical facts; instead, they hav