Whose bit of land is this anyway? Map of Crimea. Wikipedia image.
Kazakhstan is in a spot of hot water over its approval of geography textbooks slated for secondary schools in the Central Asian country that show Crimea as part of Russia rather than Ukraine.
Not surprisingly, the textbooks, which were printed by the local publishing house Mektep, quickly caught the attention of both the Kazakh public and Ukraine, neither of whom were impressed.
While the Ukrainian embassy in Kazakhstan duly bashed out a note of protest on September 25, patriotic Kazakhs have pointed out the parallels between Crimea — populated mostly by …read more
Source: Global Voices
