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Aleksandr Dyukov (historian)

Aleksandr Reshideovich Dyukov
Алекса́ндр Решиде́ович Дю́ков
Born (1978-10-17) October 17, 1978 (age 39)
Moscow, USSR
Occupation Historian, Author
Nationality Russian
Genre Non-fiction, history
Subject Russian history of the 20th century

Aleksandr Reshideovich Dyukov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Решиде́ович Дю́ков), (born October 17, 1978) is a Russian historian, writer, journalist and blogger. Dyukov is considered by critics to be a historical negationist downplaying Soviet repressions. He is persona non grata in Latvia, Lithuania and other Schengen memberstates.

He is General Director of the Moscow-based Historical Memory Foundation (Russian: Фонд "Историческая память").

Aleksandr Dyukov graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in 2004. The topic of his dissertation was the Soviet partisan movement in 1941–1943. From 2004 to 2007, Dyukov worked for the ARMS-TASS Agency of Military and Technical Information. He contributed as issuing editor of the weekly Military and Technical Cooperation, later promoted to its editor-in-chief. He has published numerous articles in the newspapers Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda, REGNUM News Agency and elsewhere focusing on Soviet history in the 20th century. After publishing two of Dyukov's books, REGNUM has since ceased cooperation with him following a conflict over Dyukov's statements in the Russian and Estonian media that his Historical Memory Foundation was primarily responsible for these publications.

Dyukov has been featured as an expert historical commentator on Novosti's Russia Today cable channel and on their web site. Dyukov is a member of the working group set up by the Russian State Duma preparing a draft for a law on combating the rehabilitation of Nazism.


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