Russian president Vladimir Putin chairing a security council meeting via a video link at the Kremlin in Moscow. Russia’s victory in the second World War is the most tenacious of Putin’s historical obsessions. Photograph: Pavel Byrkin/pool/AFP Russian children will receive new history manuals when they return to school next month. It was important to explain why the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was “inevitable”, Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the update project, who served for eight years as Putin’s minister of culture, told Radio France. Referring to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Medinsky said: “The Kyiv regime unilaterally aggressed parts of...