Peter Ivanov, chairman of the China Modern History Research section of the Institute of Oriental Studies, who wrote a letter in 1989 to Peking protesting the massacre of students in Tienanmen, agrees that the leaders of the Far East Institute are still very conservative, and still think there are no problems with Communist China.
一九八九年曾寫信給中共，抗議中共在天安門屠殺學生的東方研究所中國研究部主任伊凡諾夫也表示，遠東所領導人至今仍很保守，還認為這件事中共沒有錯。