Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with businessmen in Sochi, southern Russia, October 28, 2013. REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A call by President Vladimir Putin for a new textbook that reconciles differences over Russia's past has left him facing accusations of copying Soviet leaders by rewriting history for political ends.
The former Soviet spy asked historians in February to come up with guidelines for new school history books that would provide a unified version of the many difficult events in Russian and Soviet history.
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