BARNAUL. May 31 (Interfax) - The Russian presidential commission for countering attempts to falsify history that may damage Russia's interests should primarily be involved in organizing the work of historians rather than force them to make opportunistic conclusions, the commission's chairman and Russian presidential secretariat head Sergei Naryshkin said.

"The commission of course will not be an oversight agency forcing historians to make opportunistic political conclusions from their studies. The commission should first of all organize the work of historians. The commission should make conclusions on what falsified historic facts or events infringe Russia's interests," Naryshkin said on the air of Chanel One Russia on Sunday.

"Falsified history enters many offices of the heads of party groups and even the heads of neighboring states which try to lodge various claims: territorial, political and material to Russia instead of fine-tuning normal political dialog with it. Of course we cannot tolerate this," the official said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree establishing the commission on mid-May.