Italian geography textbooks have been found to contain maps of Ukraine depicting Crimea as part of Russia

Some Italian 7th grade geography textbooks feature maps of Ukraine with annexed Crimea depicted as part of Russian territory. This was stated in an interview with the public initiative "Needle" by the Vice President of the Union of Ukrainian Associations of Italy NAU and coordinator of the Stop Propaganda Russa initiative, Olena Kim, reports UNN.

We analyzed more than 60 books - these are geography textbooks from 2010-2024 for the 7th grade, when children study the geography of Europe. It's terrible: increasingly, we saw how the representation of Ukraine is changing. No textbook states that international law has been violated and Crimea has been annexed. In many textbooks from the 22nd year, Crimea is marked as Russian territory. Also, some have a false story with the situation in the Donbas: some textbooks write that it is allegedly a war inside Ukraine between Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians.

According to her, similar facts were discovered after an analysis conducted by Ukrainian and Italian activists, who have already compiled a dossier based on the results of the geography textbook study and plan to expand monitoring to history textbooks.

Let us remind you

Ukraine has officially completed the transition of the Crimean Tatar language from Cyrillic to Latin, approving a new Crimean Tatar orthography based on the Latin alphabet.