Boris Kolonitsky Professor of the Faculty of History, was featured as a guest on Mikhail Shvydkov's program on the TV channel "Culture". Experts, including Nikolai Makarov, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Konstantin Mogilevsky, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Yuri Petrov, Director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and others, discussed the question: "What is the reliability of history?”
How profound is our historical knowledge? How can we verify the reliability of archaeological finds, written sources and eyewitness accounts? To what extent can the reliability of historical knowledge be determined by expert assessments?
The answers are in the program "Agora" on the TV channel "Culture".
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