“Work is underway to form a complete list of almost 2 million of our compatriots who participated in the Second World War, and to prepare a book of memory on this basis,” RIA Novosti quotes him as speaking to veterans.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the leaders and citizens of the CIS countries on the 76th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War and called on everyone to work together to fight attempts to falsify history and revise the outcome of the war.