In 2004, an organisation with the strange name ‘Foundation for the Study of Historical Perspective’ (FIP) was established in Moscow. Such pseudo-academic yet utterly meaningless terminology is typical of the schemes devised by the security services. Its founder is Natalya Narochnitskaya, a deputy of the State Duma of the 4th convocation, a political scientist and Doctor of Historical Sciences. 
The FIP’s objective, as stated on its website, is ‘to create an information and analytical framework in which strategic issues concerning our country’s present and future are considered in close connection with the restoration of the historical memory of Russian civilisation and the strengthening of national identity. Bringing together the efforts of specialists and experts in the fields of international relations, geopolitics, history, information and the media to tackle this global challenge has been the FIP’s main focus since its inception.” 
In other words, the FIP’s aim is patriotic propaganda and the falsification of history, as confirmed by the list of its projects – ‘Crimea in Russian Historical Memory’, ‘The Second World War. Facts and Interpretation’, ‘National and State Identity in the Countries of the Eurasian Economic Union’, ‘For Faith and Fatherland’, ‘The Image of Russia in the Spanish Press’, etc.  
At the same time, since 2008, Narochitskaya has headed the ‘Institute for Democracy and Cooperation’, a Russian non-profit organisation established in 2007 to ‘monitor human rights in the US and Europe’. The institute’s headquarters are in Paris, with a branch in New York. On the website of the institute’s US branch, it is described as the ‘Institute for Democracy and Cooperation Foundation’, ‘a non-governmental, non-profit organisation established to serve as a “bridge” between Russia and the US’.  In 2015, the New York branch, headed by MGIMO professor Andranik Migranian, was closed.  
In 2014, the institute, in cooperation with the German right-wing magazine COMPAKT, held a conference in Berlin entitled ‘For Peace with Russia! For a Sovereign Europe!”,   at which Natalya Narochitskaya and Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways (RZD), spoke on the Russian side, whilst on the German side, speakers included Alexander Gauland, leader of the Alternative for Democracy (AfD) party. The AfD leadership’s ties to the Putin regime have been known since the party’s foundation in 2013, and in 2024 a scandal erupted when it was revealed that the party’s MPs in the Bundestag were carrying out direct orders from the FSB.  
Information on the institute’s sources of funding is not published; it is likely that this involves grants from the Russian president via the Historical Perspective Foundation, headed by Narochitskaya herself. 

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