Italy's education ministry said
Wednesday it was going to check reports of allegedly pro-Putin
history manuals being used in some Italian schools.
The Ministry of Education and Merit said it has initiated checks
to ascertain "whether the contents of history and geography
textbooks present critical issues following the news of the
distribution of school textbooks for secondary schools with a
biased and distorted view of historical reality, in favour of a
narrative of Putin's Russia and the communist Soviet Union".
Newspaper la Repubblica reported earlier Wednesday that the
allegedly pro-Putin distortions of facts in history and
geography manuals had been reported by a group of Ukrainian
activists, by Ukrainian journalist Irina Cascei, and by the
director of he Ukraine Observatory at the Istituto Gino Germani,
Massimiliano di Pasquale.
An analysis of textbooks published between 2017 and 2023 threw
up distortions including maps of Russia containing Ukraine and
captions stating that Crimea had been annexed in 2014 at its own
request.
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