Direct translation of the korrespondent.net articleThe Russian Ministry of Education will analyze all school history textbooks, Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov said on the Russia 1 TV channel, Meduza writes.
"We will now conduct a complete analysis of all textbooks," said Kravtsov.
On April 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly, said that in some school textbooks he was surprised to find "that there seems to be nothing written about us."
As an example, he cited a textbook that did not mention the Battle of Stalingrad. "Who writes, who misses such textbooks? It's amazing!" Putin said.
In March, it became known that the Ministry of Education had approved a series of textbooks on Russian and general history edited by Vladimir Medinsky, aide to the President of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Russian Military History Society, who had been criticized earlier for the quality of his doctoral dissertation in history.
Let us remind you that Putin decided to make the first days of May a weekend in Russia.