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The Ministry of Defense sent a directive to the Central Archives limiting access to previously open documents. According to military historian Mark Solonin, quoted by Ekho Moskvy, researchers may not receive documents for work that contain negative information about Russian military personnel. The concept of falsifying history works.

According to the Law “On State Secrets of the Russian Federation,” documents must be declassified 30 years from the date of their creation, except in cases where disclosure of the information contained in them could harm the country’s defense capability. However, in addition to the law, the archive has internal departmental directives that allow employees to destroy documents after their storage periods have expired. In mid-2007, declassification of archival documents of the Red Army and Navy for the period from 1941 to 1945 began. True, they are declassified individually.