The Prosveshcheniye Publishing House, one of the largest publishers of textbooks in Russia, received a “tacit order” after the start of the military invasion of Ukraine to minimize the mention of Ukraine and Kyiv in school textbooks.. Mediazona writes about this with reference to the editors of the publishing house.

According to the publication, even after 2014, the authors of textbooks tried to mention Ukraine as little as possible.. But after the start of the war, I had to “write about 15% of the texts”.

Those who work with history textbooks have the hardest time.

“We are faced with the task of making it as if Ukraine simply does not exist.. It's much worse when the textbook just doesn't mention a country.. A person grows up without a knowledge base about a certain country, and then it is much easier for him to believe what he is told about it from TV, ”said an employee of Enlightenment.

As for Kyiv, it is mentioned in the context of the fact that "