2021 Annual Meeting of the German-Russian Historians Commission took place online

 For further information as well as video recordings, see here

Russian-Lithuanian Historians' Commission releases joint publication

On May 11, 2021, the Russian-Lithuanian Historians' Commission released a joint publication of documents Lithuania and Russia, 1917-1920 in Moscow. For further reading in Russian click here. You may watch the presentation here.

Russian-Austrian Historians' Commission publishes joint history book

On January 16, 2020, Russian-Austrian Joint Historians' Commission (JHC) publishes Vol. 2 of a joint textbook «Россия – Австрия: вехи совместной истории» [Russia - Austria: Milestones of Shared History]. You may watch a live presentation at the Gaidar Forum here. 

22nd annual conference of Russian-German Historians' Commission meets in Voronezh, Russia

The theme of this year's conference is economic relations between Germany and Soviet Union, 1917-1991. Over a day and a half, fourteen presentations are made by Commission members as well as by those who answered a Call-for-Papers. One session is devoted to "Nazi's Forced Labor and Germany's Historical Responsibility." For detailed program, see here.

Before the Voronezh meeting, an event for the release of the last of the three-volume joint history book was held at the reception house of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 9th. Russian President V. Putin and German Chancellor Merkel sent messages of congratulations respectively.

21st Annual Meeting of German-Russian Historians' Commission

Together with the annual meeting, a number of public events were held in Munich, July 4-5, 2018. They include a panel discussion on the 1918 Revolution in Moscow, Berlin, and Munich, a day-long symposium at the Institute for Contemporary History and the launch of Volume One of a joint history book of German-Russian relations at the Tolstoi Library.

German-Russian Historians' Commission to Hold 21st Annual Meeting on July 5, 2018

The German-Russian Historians' Commission will hold its annual plenary session in Munich. There will be a colloquium, a panel discussion, as well as a book presentation of the latest volume of a joint schoolbook. For details, check the Commission's website under Useful Links

Russian–Ukrainian History Dialogue in Helsinki, Finland

On September 4 and 5, 2017, Historians Without Borders based in Helsinki, Finland, hosted a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian historians. Click here for the program and participants.

Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters resumes its activities, March 2017

“We are open to constructive cooperation and we are undertaking actions to break the impasse in which we are now,” said Minister Witold Waszczykowski at a ceremony during which he handed nominations to the Polish members of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters.

Professor Mirosław Filipowicz, Director of the Institute of East Central Europe in Lublin, is the new Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters. New members of the Polish part of the Group, which has resumed its activities after a two-year hiatus, are outstanding academics and experts who specialise in Russia and Eastern affairs. 

For a full announcement by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, see here.

The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Russian-Austrian Historians' Commission

From 5 to 7 June 2016 the eighth annual meeting of the Russian-Austrian Historians' Commission took place in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The theme of the meeting was "USSR and Austria in the 1950s and 1960s." The meeting also discussed the program of the Summer School for Young Historians, which will be held at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 11-18 September 2016. It also decided to hold the next meeting of the Commission in Austria. The Commission will organize a scientific symposium dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Sigismund Herberstein's visit to Russia. The Commission was created in 2007 on the initiative of the former Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik and her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

Publication of the Joint Japanese-Russian Historians' Group

In September 2015, the bilateral Japanese-Russian historians' commission published a collective work--a parallel history of the Japanese-Russian relations since the 18th century--in both Japanese and Russian. The bilateral group, also known in Russian as Russian-Japanese Commission on Complex Problems of Russian-Japanese Relations (российско-японской Комиссии по сложным вопросам истории российско-японских отношений), was launched in late 2011. Headed respectively by Iokibe Makoto (former president, Japanese Defense Academy) and A.V.Torkunov (Rector, Moscow Institute of International Relations, MGIMO), it held annual meetings between 2011 and 2014.
See here for the Table of Contents in Japanese and here for a brief introduction to the Russian edition.