Russia's envoy to the UN quoted a Ukrainian textbook on geography at a Security Council meeting

However, the textbook was removed from schools in 2020.

Russia's representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya at a meeting of the Council Security was quoted by a Ukrainian textbook on geography, which allegedly wrote about the origins of European peoples from Ukraine.

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“I was fascinated by A textbook of geography for the eighth grade edited by Maslyak. According to the textbook, the ancestors of the French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Turks and Jews came from Ukraine. I want to turn to my French colleague Nicolas de Riviere. Do you believe? Read the textbook, it has iron logic: because the ancestors of the French are Gauls, they came from Galicia, which is in Ukraine, “Nebenzia said.

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Textbook of Geography edited by P.O. Maslyak was removed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in 2020 due to biased allegations.

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Based on materials: ZN.ua

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