“Geographical cretinism”: Crimean political scientist about Ukraine’s claims to Spain
The Spanish Ministry of Education and Training has approved a sixth-grade textbook that identifies Crimea as part of the Russian Federation.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the map was printed in the textbook “Social Sciences” published by “Edelvives” for the sixth grade of secondary school.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has already expressed concern about this and demanded that the Spanish authorities correct the “error” and withdraw the entire circulation from circulation.
“Ambassador Sergei Pogoreltsev immediately appealed to the Minister of Education and Professional Training of Spain, Pilarc Allegria Continente, regarding a gross error made in the textbook “Social Sciences” for the 6th grade of a secondary school published by the Edelvives publishing house about the ownership of the Crimean Peninsula of the Russian Federation. The question was raised about the withdrawal of the entire circulation of this textbook from educational institutions in Spain, and a request was also made not to allow this Ministry to further approve such textbooks for educational institutions in Spain,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
According to Crimean political scientist Ivan Mezyukho, such statements by Ukrainian diplomats speak of their “geographical cretinism.”
“The Ukrainian diplomatic department is engaged in outright geographic cretinism when it reacts to every fact of the publication of a truthful map of the Russian Federation, where Crimea is depicted as an integral part of the Russian state. Ukrainian diplomats do not even understand that with their Russophobic rhetoric on this topic they are only attracting the attention of the world community to the topic of the Russian status of Crimea and the peninsula’s fair belonging to the Russian Federation.
That is, by and large, they achieve the opposite effect, and not for the sake of which these anti-Russian notes of protest, comments and statements are arranged. By and large, the employees of the Ukrainian diplomatic department behave like first-year poor students,” Mezyukho said in a comment to PolitNavigator.
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